Jeremy White wows WAFB’s morning hosts with The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture
Baton Rouge, LA — February 14, 2024 — In his first live TV appearance since publishing The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture: A Journey of Selfless Discovery, author Jeremy White visibly stuns anchors Liz Koh and Matt Williams on WAFB9 News at 9 with details from the powerful story about his wife, Edie, discovering her biological family in early 2018 and the beautifully insane adventure that ensued. Nearly a dozen chapters recount Jeremy and Edie traveling on COVID’s eve to Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and California wine country to meet her far-flung new folks.
In the live segment aired on Thursday, February 8, Koh and Williams are physically taken aback as White retells how Edie was “sucker punched at work by Ancestry’s iPhone app with news that ‘John Hart is your father’ at 10:45 on a Tuesday morning. Good luck getting anything else done that day,” the author remarks. “Well, turns out, John Hart is going to have some books written about him. In fact,” White continues, “he is cited in two books about David Duke because of an incident that happened in 1969 at Free Speech Alley at LSU, involving a bloody knife.”
“I’ve got chills.” — Liz Koh
When White explains how Edie ultimately solves a mystery that had been plaguing a gangster-adjacent, Ukrainian American family near Chicago for 65 years, Koh reveals, “I’ve got chills.” Moments later, a floored Williams insists, “It’s like a movie, like a bunch of movies!” Koh agrees and tells viewers, “Well, if someone’s listening out there and thinking, ‘OK, I need to get the screenplay going,’ we know the guy to talk to.”
“It’s like a movie, like a bunch of movies!” — Matt Williams
Jeremy White is a tenured cynic who penned this hopeful book. He founded South Louisiana’s premier satirical publication in 2004, eight years before relaunching the award-winning Red Shtick Magazine as its all-digital progeny, The Red Shtick. The passionate Cajun can often be heard on various popular radio shows as either a guest or a guest host. A longtime football official and Mardi Gras krewe captain, Jeremy earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at LSU, where he and Edie met. They’ve been happily married since 1992 and live in Baton Rouge with their cat, Waffles.
White Lines Press published the ebook and 468-page hardcover editions of The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture on July 1, 2023, before launching The Little Girl Book Podcast on December 1 in lieu of an audiobook. Signed editions are available at LittleGirlBook.com and through partnered indie bookstores around the country. For more information and resources, visit our media center. Inquiries should be sent to [email protected].
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