Fiery, daring, unforgettable… Landis knows bad girls — how their minds work, how they are made, and why they are broken. Best of all, she knows how to make you love them — which you can’t help but do as you follow Rainey Royal, the title character, through her 1970s Greenwich Village girlhood. Rainey is dangerous, but her struggles are timeless, and Landis writes about her with prose so elegant and crystalline that as you read, you have to remind yourself to breathe.