Book Talk with Jordan LaHaye Fontenot

Name: Book Talk with Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Start: 2025-04-10T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-10T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1204 Johnston St., Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70503

Schedule

Thu Apr 10 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1204 Johnston St., Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70503 | Lafayette, LA

Don't miss this event with Jordan LaHaye Fontenot celebrating the release of her mystery-memoir, Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie. Jordan will give a talk and a reading, followed by a book signing at the J. Arthur Roy House. In this riveting blend of true crime and memoir by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, the author 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.
On January 16, 1983, Aubrey LaHaye’s body was found floating in the Bayou Nezpique. His kidnapping ten days before sparked “the biggest manhunt in the history of Evangeline Parish.” Decades later, Aubrey’s great-granddaughter Jordan LaHaye Fontenot asked her father, the parish urologist, to tell the full story. He revealed that to this day, every few months, one of his patients will ask about Aubrey and the man accused of killing him, John Brady Balfa, who remains at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola serving a life sentence.
The evening begins at 6 p.m. There is limited parking in our Roy House lot and across the street at Martin Hall Circle. There are ParkMobile pay lots walking distance from the Roy House on University Avenue.