“These are books that — like Girls – explore what it is like to be young and hungry — hungry for love and hungry for sex, but most of all, hungry for recognition and hungry for adulthood. Ultimately, the girls in these books, like the girls of Girls, are hungry to become the women they will one day be.”
- Ten Books to Read Now That HBO’s Girls Is Back by Claire Miye Stanford
The Dud Avocado made the list: “Of all the girls on this list, Gorce seems most like the proto-Girl — a girl who is self-avowedly ‘hellbent on living,’ getting herself into (and out of) escapade after escapade during her time in France. Many of Gorce’s misadventures involve a heavy dose of slapstick, starting on page one with our introduction to our heroine, who is sitting at a Parisian bar having a morning cocktail, wearing an evening dress because all her other clothes are at the cleaners.”
