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March 24, 2006
Harvard Crimson Profiles Kaavya Viswanathan
"Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 wrote a book last year. It is a pretty good book; it is thick, orange, and intended for young adults.
"To a large extent, it is a book about Harvard—to a lesser extent, it is a book about cruelty, madness, and the post-colonial alienation of a young Indian girl from New Jersey.
"A publishing imprint of Time Warner paid Viswanathan half-a-million dollars for it upfront, and Dreamworks Studios will pay her even more when they turn it into a movie. If she isn’t already, Viswanathan will become very famous, very soon. And when Warner puts the gas on her book’s marketing campaign next week, she will join the swelling/swollen ranks of young Ivy-bred writers who have traded their ability to lead normal undergraduate lives for literary celebrity. "
Revisit my review of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life
Posted by Mary Anne Mohanraj at March 24, 2006 06:23 AM
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