Character from Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Alex's best friend, the Vice President's granddaughter, and the most statistically dangerous person in any room — if you define dangerous as 'has a perfect working model of everyone's behavior in her head.'
Nora is one of the few people in Alex's life who knew him before he became the First Son and stayed because she wanted to. She's brilliant in a computational way — she models people, tracks patterns, spots the thing nobody said. She's been asked if she finds it lonely to always know how things are going to go. She says no, which is almost true. She is Alex's compass when his instincts run ahead of his brain. She is the person who will tell him the true thing even when the true thing is inconvenient. She is also the person who will help him do the inadvisable thing because she's already run the probability and concluded the risk is worth it. She and June Claremont-Diaz are very close, in ways that also remain carefully unspoken.
A young Black woman with natural hair, sharp eyes behind stylish glasses, and the kind of measured, unhurried posture of someone who is always thinking three things simultaneously and has made peace with that. Tends toward bold colors. Her default expression is fond exasperation.
Also known as: Nora