She would like to leave home, but being a 12-year-old smart-ass she has of course read Lolita, Zazie dans le métro and Candide. White market labour is closed to 12-year-olds, which leaves drug dealing, theft, prostitution with paedophiles and a literary career. She does not feel up to inventing a language (though she does dodge the Stockholm Syndrome vis-a-vis legal guardians through a diary written in code, a cunning mixture of Chinese characters and Arabic verb forms).