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...Viswanathan’s book, now on sale at Harvard Bookstore and the Coop, is called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” It is about an over-achieving Indian girl in her senior year of high school, whose lifelong goal to attend Harvard is derailed when the Dean of Admissions finds out she has no friends and doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite Opal’s impeccable resumé, the dean basically tells her that she’s too nerdy for college...
...story—a fairy tale, more or less, built on archetypal stock characters and a simplistic, familiar plot. And if readers—particularly readers who go to school with her—associate the real Kaavya Viswanathan with the caricature she has created in Opal Mehta, the shadow of her novel may prove to be a hard one to overcome...
...struggle has already begun—last month, Viswanathan “firmly” told the Boston Globe that the novel is not an autobiography, and that Opal is nothing more than a fictional character...
Makes sense, since big numbers are what Harvard’s all about: Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 will see the publication of her debut novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” on April 1. Movie rights have been sold to DreamWorks, making the $500,000 advance Viswanathan got for the book sound like little knuckles... Speaking of which, the new issue of The Harvard Lampoon, edited by Farley T. Katz ’06 and former Lampoon president Simon H. Rich...
...than a couple of months, when they're either released or moved on to more long-term accommodation. Which wreaks havoc with the performance schedule. "There's the constant worry that someone's going to be unconvicted or unsentenced and we'll lose them," says prison director Janine McDowell. Opal, 24, a mother of three, inside on shoplifting charges, wasn't going to let that happen. After an officer heard her singing outside her cell and suggested she try out for Chicago, she landed a role as the judge. "I wanted to act ever since...