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Lou is a restless girl from Texas who decides she’s over her old life. Before she takes off, she has her best friend shave her head half for convenience, half because she’s ready to become New Lou! Then she defers college and jumps onto a celebrity musician’s world tour as part of the road crew.

Suddenly she’s hauling dirty laundry, sneaking into underground clubs in Shanghai, eating gelato in Europe, and falling for a tattooed guitar prodigy who makes her heart race. Young nails the mix of glamour and grit that comes with life on the road. There's sweat, heartbreak, freedom, and that dizzying sense of “Who am I becoming?” running through every chapter.

It’s messy, sparkly, full of feelings and a story about travel, music, friendship, first love, and the way we try on new selves when nobody from home is watching. I closed the book feeling like I’d been on tour with Lou!