{"product_id":"9780063257962","title":"Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Riveting and atmospheric, \u003ci\u003eHome of the Happy\u003c\/i\u003e is also a heartfelt grappling with a trauma in the author’s family and her attempts to unravel its secrets once and for all. LaHaye Fontenot’s writing is urgent, fueled not just by a desire for justice but by love for her ancestors and the Cajun community of south Louisiana. A must-read for true crime and mystery fans.\"— Ana Reyes, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe House in the Pines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 16, 1983, Aubrey LaHaye’s body was found floating in the Bayou Nezpique, the grim end to a shocking South Louisiana kidnapping. His abduction ten days before sparked “the biggest manhunt in the history of Evangeline Parish.” But his descendants would hear the story as lore, in whispers of the dreadful day the FBI landed a helicopter in the family’s front lawn and set out on horseback to search for the seventy-year-old banker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, Aubrey’s great-granddaughter Jordan LaHaye Fontenot asked her father, the parish urologist, to tell the full story. He revealed that local whispers of a possible wrongful conviction persist to this day. Every few months, one of his patients will bring up his grandfather’s murder, and the man accused of killing him, John Brady Balfa, who remains at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola serving a life sentence. They’ll say, in so many words: “Dr. Marcel, I really don’t think that Balfa boy killed your granddaddy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Maggie Nelson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Red Parts\u003c\/i\u003e and Emma Copley Eisenberg's \u003ci\u003eThe Third Rainbow Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHome of the Happy\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful investigative memoir that unravels the layers of suffering borne of this brutal crime—and investigates the family secrets and mysteries that linger beneath generations of silence. Is it possible that an innocent man languishes in prison, still, wrongly convicted of murdering the author’s great-grandfather?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Haunting Cold Case:\u003c\/b\u003e Revisit the 1983 kidnapping and murder of banker Aubrey LaHaye, a crime that sparked the biggest manhunt in Evangeline Parish history and left a legacy of doubt.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDeeply Personal True Crime:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow the author as she breaks generations of family silence to uncover the truth of her great-grandfather’s death, piecing together a story she only heard in whispers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCajun Culture and Setting:\u003c\/b\u003e Immerse yourself in the atmospheric world of south Louisiana, where tight-knit communities hold long memories and the lines between lore and fact have blurred over time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUnsolved Mysteries:\u003c\/b\u003e Confront the central question that still echoes through the bayou: Did the right man go to prison, or has an innocent man been paying for someone else’s crime for forty years?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369692631101,"sku":"9780063257962","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780063257962_p0.jpg?v=1771568149","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780063257962","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}