At 17, Nora, not her real name, has five other names and identities that inform her now-precarious ego, six if you count the one she was born with, but that girl might as well be dead. When we meet Nora, her girlfriend Iris, and Nora's ex-boyfriend Wes, they're in a bank to deposit money from a fundraiser and find themselves hostages to a pair of bank robbers.

A switch flips in Nora, from her heavily therapized, and trying to live a normal, under the radar life self, to all the grifters she was under her grifter mother's ungentle tutelage. This book is absorbing and satisfying and left me wanting a sequel.