After her novels "I Am Who You Think I Am" and "In Those Arms," ​​Camille Lawrence, along with Laurence Baraki, invites us to explore the subject. She realized, from an early age, that girls' status was inferior to that of boys, through language and parental upbringing.
It is a straightforwardly autobiographical novel, a girl's journey through what the French language says about girls. What the French language says about girls is always generally derogatory, as if the language were a mirror of the unconscious at the time.
Camille Lawrence wanted to say that Simone de Beauvoir was actually wrong. In her 1949 book, The Second Sex, she says, "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Here, Camille Lawrence contradicts de Beauvoir by saying, "You are not born indefinitely; there is already a project." This project is to say that the French language imprisons women from birth, even before they identify as women. The novel "Girl" is a moving journey through eras and time periods and through the evolution of the view of women from 1959 to 2020, and the example here is her daughter. What happened, and what she narrates, is a novel about the curse, about the birth of women in the fifties in the cocoon of the family, and about the viewpoint of language in it.