The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture‘s Chapter 11 named for disgraced narc
Baton Rouge, LA — June 29, 2023 — An LSU student government member impeached for secretly working with local law enforcement plays an important role in Jeremy White’s book about his wife, Edie, discovering her biological family in 2018 and the beautifully insane adventure that ensued. Chapter 11 of The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture: A Journey of Selfless Discovery is named after August “Gus” Tabony, a former LSU SG financial vice president who was impeached in 1974 after it was discovered he was employed by the intelligence division of the Baton Rouge Police Department.
“Gus Tabony plays a dubious role in the history of my wife’s biological father, John Hart,” White explains. “This real-life unicorn of a family saga is heavy on happy reunions, but there are a handful of dark moments that offer contrasts to the light moments, and this Tabony fellow provides the darkest of the dark. In chapter 11,” White adds, “readers learn how, over half a century later, the disgraced narc still haunts the nightmares of my wife’s birth father.”
“There are a handful of dark moments that offer contrasts to the light moments, and this Tabony fellow provides the darkest of the dark.”
The Little Girl immersively details how, literally overnight, the baby of Edie’s adopted family becomes the eldest sibling in a new, amazing family, fathered by a pacifist cited in two books for challenging David Duke at LSU with a bloody knife. During her pre-COVID travels with Jeremy to Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and California wine country, Edie ultimately solves the last of three mysteries presented to her: What happened to the little girl at the bottom of the picture? It’s a question that plagued an enthusiastic horde of gangster-adjacent Ukrainian Americans for more than 65 years.
White Lines Press is publishing the 468-page hardcover edition of The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture on July 1, but readers can pre-order signed copies at LittleGirlBook.com, where 1 in 20 customers will win a signed “lagniappe” copy. Signed hardcover editions are also available 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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