Join us Thursday, June 12 at 6PM for a special literary event at Sibyl Gallery featuring Louisiana-based author Jordan LaHaye Fontenot reading from her USA Today National Best-Selling debut publication, Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie.
In this riveting blend of true crime and memoir, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot investigates the kidnapping and murder of her great-grandfather in 1980s Louisiana. Set against the backdrop of one of America’s most mystical and overlooked landscapes, Home of the Happy traces not just the crime itself, but the reverberations on the author’s family and community throughout the decades.
In this riveting blend of true crime and memoir, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot investigates the kidnapping and murder of her great-grandfather in 1980s Louisiana. Set against the backdrop of one of America’s most mystical and overlooked landscapes, Home of the Happy traces not just the crime itself, but the reverberations on the author’s family and community throughout the decades.
"A vivid, unflinching, and suspenseful true-crime story from a soulful new voice."
— Kirkus Reviews
“In an impressive feat of both memoir and original reporting, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot has cast a reporter’s gaze on her own family’s buried secrets.”
“In an impressive feat of both memoir and original reporting, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot has cast a reporter’s gaze on her own family’s buried secrets.”
— Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author and journalist