This is a story about Lucky, a female con artist and how she became that way. The story has an alternate timeline, going back and forth from the time she was a baby to her upbringing by her grifter father and into adulthood. I thought the story moved smoothly between the past and present but felt it would have been more effective if told in a more linear style.
I knew I was supposed to empathize with Lucky but was never fully engaged by her character. She lived a childhood where her father taught her to lie, trick people, change her appearance and identity, and steal. They were always on the run, moving quickly to evade the law. They were never in one place long enough for Lucky to make friends or go to school. She struggled with morality and longed for traditional, settled family life.
Despite her early experiences, finding that she could quickly gain her victim's trust and their money, she was naive. As she matured, she trusted the wrong people, made bad choices, and was readily conned herself. Once she moved in with her first boyfriend and lover, he turned out to be a greater con man than her father. They were both wanted by the police. They accumulated a large sum of money through various illegal swindles. One was a false investment set up by Lucky. It worked like a Ponzi scheme that took retirement funds from the elderly, and when it collapsed, her boyfriend absconded with all the ill-gained money in their accounts. Lucky always held the delusion instilled by her father that they only took money from the wealthy who would never miss it.
Her boyfriend was on the run with their money, and Lucky was alone. Her father was now in prison, betrayed by a powerful female criminal mastermind for whom he worked. Lucky had bought a multi-million dollar lottery ticket and discovered she was the winner. She has no way to cash it in without giving away her true identity and going to prison for a string of past crimes. From clues she had learned from her father when he was drunk, she decides to search for the long-lost mother she never knew. While searching, she carries out more cons and finally meets the woman eluded to by her father. Maybe she can convince her to cash the lottery ticket for her? She is also being watched and endangered by the criminal mastermind who employed her father. The police have long sought this woman, but they have never been able to apprehend or charge her.
I thought we needed more backstory and character development for the nun who handed over baby Lucky to the man claiming to be her father. This nun had a sufficient hidden stash of money to gladly support and educate the baby's mother. Was her money the result of fraud?
This story ends with Lucky's remorse and redemption due to a hurried and unbelievable intervention and ending. Without the circumstances set up in this rushed ending, I had to wonder if she would have continued her life of crime without this conclusion.
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