People You Follow

"e;A journey down the rabbit hole of LA's most subtly toxic industry ... funny, brilliant, coy, playful, and wise."e; - LENA DUNHAM, author of Not That Kind of GirlMusician Hayley Gene Penner tells all in this harrowingly honest memoir.Singer-songwriter Hayley Gene Penner's memoir takes a brutally honest yet humorous look at the dark, intimate truths we spend our lives running from. Like a map of beautiful mistakes, Hayley's stories of questionable sexual encounters, artistic aspirations, and emotional abuse trace her coming of age in the music industry.Hayley explores all her relationships - from her childhood as the daughter of a celebrity, to the destructive and coercive relationship with her boss, to her encounter with the actor we all know but who mustn't be named - and brings them together in a series of sharp, touching vignettes. People You Follow straddles the delicate boundary between ethical and unethical behaviour, self-protection and self-destruction, power and weakness, giddiness and despair.