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...responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva [sic] Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous. Ms. Viswanathan's claim that similarities in her phrasing were 'unconscious' or 'unintentional' is suspect. We have documented more than forty passages from Kaavya Viswanathan's recent publication 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings.' This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft...
...loved two wonderful novels by Megan McCafferty, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings,' which spoke to me in a way few other books did. Recently, I was very surprised and upset to learn that there are similarities between some passages in my novel, 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,' and passages in these books...
...Little, Brown and Company received a letter from Random House this morning, pointing out several passages in Kaavya Viswanathan's novel HOW OPAL MEHTA GOT KISSED, GOT WILD, and GOT A LIFE that they deem similar to passages in Megan McCafferty's novels SLOPPY FIRSTS and SECOND HELPINGS. We consider this a serious matter and we are investigating it immediately...
...that some literal copying actually occurred here," Min Jung Lee, the assistant general counsel of Random House, wrote in an April 22 letter to Carol Ross, the general counsel of Little, Brown, which released Viswanathan’s debut novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” this month...
...statement released through her publisher, Little, Brown and Company, Viswanathan apologized to McCafferty and said that future printings of her recently-released novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," will be revised "to eliminate any inappropriate similarities...