I'll also add that she got her MFA at Columbia University in NYC and was a reader for the New Yorker magazine, so she was definitely enmeshed in the literary scene and had connections.
You state that she has no track record before the Girls but she had a short story named Marion published in the Paris Review that went on to win the Plimpton prize. That was in 2013 if I'm not mistaken.
I'll also add that she got her MFA at Columbia University in NYC and was a reader for the New Yorker magazine, so she was definitely enmeshed in the literary scene and had connections.
You state that she has no track record before the Girls but she had a short story named Marion published in the Paris Review that went on to win the Plimpton prize. That was in 2013 if I'm not mistaken.
Ah, yes. Valid point.
I loved her next book, The Guest
I need to read it.