Breaking news. Turns out Kaavya Viswanathan isn't even Indian. She actually stole her identity from an Indian classmate, and her family's actually Welsh. Seriously, I hope she has a good support network. I'd hate to be in her shoes. Actually, she probably stole her shoes from another author.
Oh, nevermind. I'm about a week late to even be trying.
Enough about the past! Can't we just move on?
My NEW book's called "Unknown Paralegal." It's about a hot Indian girl who's not really Indian at one of the world’s largest law firms. She's brilliant yet ruthless, and has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on her desk. She hates holidays and partners. Best of all, she’s just started a weblog to tell the world about what life is really like at the middle of her profession. Then some dude named Jimmy Blackman accuses her of ripping him off and all hell breaks loose! It's AWESOME!
Look for it in July...
Posted by: Kaavya Viswanathan | May 04, 2006 at 09:44 AM
I dig that the link to "Kaavya" is "synonymous lawyer"....
If that had actually happened, I'd understand the unrelenting spleen directed at KV, who, can we all agree, is the real victim here... ;-)
I think JB's just jealous because _he_ didn't get a 2 book deal from Little, Brown ("worst name for a law firm ever" - heh. Would "Big, Red, Angry, Hairy, Teeth" have been better?).
Posted by: Eh Nonymous | May 04, 2006 at 09:48 AM
Yikes! This story is reaching some very low points.
What else about her is just not true?
Is she really an unemployed 80 year old drag queen from Memphis who thought it would be fun to fool the world as a teenage girl?
Posted by: Diana Barry Blythe | May 04, 2006 at 12:13 PM
ob-SESS-ion !
Posted by: M | May 04, 2006 at 01:18 PM
but on the other hand she's just 19 years old, impressionable, may be trying to find her own voice. She shouldn't have published the book as an original work, though
Posted by: stav | May 06, 2006 at 04:25 AM