Did these idiot publishers really expect a 17-year-old to be able to write a sustained, meaningful (and Mr Upstream uses that term in a very loose sense--we aren't talking about Shakespeare, here) novel? They never bothered to read other successful examples of the genre? Did this girl not have an editor?
"Well, she goes to Harvard, so she must have a brain and the integrity not to plagiarize (several) other authors, right? let's give her a two-book deal, shall we?"
Morons.
Mr Upstream doesn't blame Kaavya. If Mr Upstream had managed to hoodwink Little, Brown & Co. at the age of 17, Mr Upstream surely would have. No, Mr Upstream blames the hack editors who should have been going over her work with a fine-toothed comb before it ever went to the printer.
Mr Upstream also thinks Kaavya is kinda cute in a jailbait, snooty Harvard plagiarist bad girl kinda way...
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