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Kaavya Viswanathan says she is familiar with the works of Megan McCafferty but the resemblances between those works and her own book are unintentional.
In 2006, the Independent was the first to report that Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan's highly publicized debut young adult novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life contained "imagery, sentence structure, and paragraph organization" which was "strikingly similar" to material in Tanuja Desai Hidier's 2002 novel Born Confused.