Globe Editorial

A star is shorn

April 29, 2006

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KAAVYA VISWANATHAN is a teenager who was tossed into the star-maker machinery. Back in February, that machine -- an agent, a book packager, and a publisher -- presented her as a wunderkind. She was a Harvard student with a $500,000 book deal. Her first novel, ''How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life," was widely hyped. (Full article: 436 words)