How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild And Got A Life - Softcover

Viswanathan, Kaavya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075153742X ISBN 13: 9780751537420

Publisher: Sphere, 2006

Synopsis

When Opal Mehta was six years old her parents moved from India to New Jersey so that they could get their child a place at the finest learning institution in the world: Harvard University. To achieve this goal, the Mehtas carefully and thoroughly constructed HOWGIH (How Opal Will Get Into Harvard). Opal's life so far has strictly adhered to this plan - cello lessons at age 6, foreign languages at 7, mechanical engineering classes, horticulture and mosaic art classes after that. Now, armed with a sterling set of academic and extra-curricular credentials, Opal has applied to Harvard. Failure is not an option.

But the first question the admissions officer asks her is 'What do you like to do for fun?' She is stumped. Studying and hard work are all she's ever known. Boys hold no appeal (well, perhaps Sean Whalen, but he thinks she's a nerd.) But when she tells her parents, they simply take it all in their stride. 'There is no problem too big for us Mehtas,' declares her father. And so HOWGAL - How Opal Will Get A Life - springs into action, with hilarious results ...

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Review:

A fun debut from an author who is still only 18 years old (MARIE CLAIRE)

Written with much feeling, great insider knowledge and a tongue firmly in a nicely rouged cheeK (DNA SUNDAY)

A sharp debut (ELLE)

Ferris Bueller meets Bend it Like Beckham (HARPERS & QUEEN 'Hot List 2006')

Book Description:

A fantastically warm and funny first novel that has the humour of Sophie Kinsella and the heart of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 075153742X
• ISBN 13: 9780751537420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320