Symposium's Monthly Book Club at Ellie's!

This month, we're reading Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Happy Land is Rhode Island Center for the Book's 2026 Reading Across Rhode Island Selection!

Everyone is welcome. Come out and get your literary nerd on!

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“Dolen Perkins-Valdez has the range, depth, and vision to capture the dreams of a people on the pages of a novel. Happy Land is exactly the novel we need right here, right now. Accompanied by the musical speech of the American south, Perkins-Valdez sings a song to remind us that freedom is worth fighting for.”

—Tayari Jones, New York Timesbestselling author of An American Marriage

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