- HAYLEY ALDRIDGE IS STILL HERE is a pointed look at how American media and consumers ripped young women celebrities apart in the ‘90s and ‘00s. Sloan is so good at blending nostalgia for the era with showing the real cost of what we did.
- I loved how this book was clear that even though Hayley wasn’t exactly living the straight and narrow life, she still didn’t deserve a conservatorship.
- Obviously I wasn’t a celebrity in that era, but having been a young woman then, there was a bit of catharsis here in being reminded that it was a tough time to live through as a girl, and it wasn’t all the shiny fun that TikTok likes to imagine it was. Do take note of the content warnings, since just about everything possible happens to Hayley.