Rhode Island Center for the Book and the Pell Center present an evening with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the author of Happy Land, the 2026 selection for Reading Across Rhode Island's all-state read. Dolen Perkins-Valdez will be in conversation with Jim Ludes, the Executive Director of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy.

This event is in collaboration with Rhode Island Center for the Book.