You’ll say, ‘I’m so sick of these girl books,’ or ‘I really hate that word’ or ‘Ugh, why does everyone feel the need to copy The Girl On The Train?’ even though that book came after Gone Girl and that book came out after The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and you are, in all probability, a former girl yourself. My girl is a girl – a teenage girl. Danya Kukafka, author of Girl In Snow, says that we use the word ‘girl’ because no other word feels quite the same. So before you roll your eyes at the next book you see with ‘girl’ in the title, stop and think. Consider that it was probably written by a girl like you, for a girl like you, about a girl like you.

Source: The Irish Times March 01, 2018 13:52 UTC