How Opal Mehta got kissed, got wild, and got a life

Kaavya Viswanathan · first published 2006 · ISBN 9780316059886

A young adult novel following an academically driven Indian-American teenager who, after being told she lacks well-roundedness by a Harvard admissions officer, attempts to transform herself into a stereotypical American teen. The novel was later withdrawn from publication after widespread plagiarism was discovered.