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Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 got in, got $500,000, and got a film deal. Her debut novel, called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” will be available in bookstores this spring. The book, which tracks an academically-driven girl of Indian descent as she learns to loosen up, has already been picked up by DreamWorks Studios, who is in talks with Viswanathan about a film adaptation. Contrafilm and Alloy Entertainment will produce, according to Variety. The joint English and American Literature and Language and Economics...
...might complain that the pace lends itself to superficiality. But though the novel may not match Malcolm’s epic ambitions—at times the plot is forced and the loose ends tied too neatly—its shortcomings do little damage to the readability of the novel...
...title of the novel indicates, Malcolm intends to explore the consequences of fleeing and, if not forgetting the past, then omitting it. Leo’s efforts to protect his family from the truth range from the understandable (blindfolding his daughter as they pick through the debris of a bombing) to the absurd (refusing to tell his wife about his financial devastation...
More devastating for the novel itself is the way it infantilizes the women in Leo’s life. Their perpetual innocence about the reality of their lives makes strong female characters hard to come...
...Silent Lies” has the feel of a first time novel, which it is. Although the reader may not feel an emotional urgency on behalf of Leo, the plot takes enough twists and turns to make the ride agreeable...