Kaavya Viswanathan wrote How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life while at Harvard (2006) about Opal's obsession with getting into the big H. It is a LOL comedy about her parents' effort to make her more interesting and ultimately how she falls for a classmate who is not an object of desire (life's what happens while your busy making plans). BTW, the title says it all, there's nothing more than the first kiss ! But she captures the high school moment perfectly. The doting parents create HOWGAL (How Opal Will Get a Life) and have regular strategy sessions with their daughter.
Funniest line - "he had been very impressed by my familiarity with emerging markets in nanotechnology" (183).
One problem - she was caught plagiarizing, including passages from Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, as well as books by Megan McCafferty, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, and Tanuja Desai Hidier. Little, Brown & Co. recalled all copies of the book.
Meet the Patels is a real life documentary directed and filmed by Geeta Patel, who makes a brief appearance towards the end of the film. Here the helicopter parents seek a wife for their son Ravi. But he has secretly been living with a redhead. Just like Opal, life (the redhead) is what happens while busy making plans (for "real" partner). Most Patels derive from Gujarat state. Ravi's parents, Champa and Vasant, turn out to have an extraordinary relationship and are a testimonial to arranged marriages, much to everyone's chagrin !!
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