What type of narrator is used in "Girl"?

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"" utilizes what is known as second-person narrationa rare but not unheard of type of
narrative voice. Essentially, what this means is that rather than first-person narration (which
uses "I") or third-person narration (which speaks objectively using "he,"
"she," "they," etc.), second-person narration uses "you" or
"your," addressing the reader directly.

The effect of using this
narrative style is that the reader thinks about what goes on in the story as an extension of
their own experience. Ironically, this is often very alienating because we as readers are not
used to this technique. Second-person narration is a particularly hard form of narration to pull
off and is therefore often used only in shortlike "Girl." However, there are some
writers, such as Mohsin Hamid, who manage to write entire novels while only using the
second-person.