Is Michelle Wie Novel’s Love Interest? (Update)
Punahou Blues
Submitted for your approval, a passage describing love interest “Laura Kwan” from said novel:
She wore sleeveless dresses with Mandarin collars and her hair fell like a shiny black river down to her waist. She had a jade bracelet set in gold around her wrist. Whenever she walked, she held out her shoulders like wings and that made me think she would do great things with her life. She was a sprinter on the girls’ track team and had smashed Hawaii State records for the 100-yard dash and the 440. Her independent nature sent the message that not only could she survive not being popular, but that she preferred it. She usually had a wry smile on her face whenever she walked through campus.
“Stuck up chick,” said Coop.
Wesley nodded. “She needs it.”
The Jocks didn’t like Laura because they were threatened by her record-breaking performances. Her aloofness made her unpopular with the Surfers and the Druggies. The Brains didn’t like her competitive nature. Even boys at the rock bottom of the social totem pole considered her distant and unapproachable. The girls didn’t like her much either. She’d run twice for class president and lost both times. But Laura wasn’t concerned with the politics of popularity. She cultivated detachment while her peers pursued acceptance and approval. Failing didn’t bother her—it just rolled off her like water.
Author Wright says “It’s purely coincidental Jeff’s love interest goes to the same school as Michelle Wie and also happens to be Korean American.”
Update: A quick look at the Hawaii Best-Seller’s list finds Punahou Blues off the radar.
Amazon: Punahou Blues
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December 1st, 2005 at 11:16 am
What a skyhook! (That’s when a news story lead grabs onto a celebrity name to boost readership.) If the book ever gets reviewed by NY Times, I might read it. The sample paragraph does little to encourage interest, though. Hype for hype’s sake?
December 1st, 2005 at 11:25 am
The sample paragraph doesn’t seem to be written on the same level as Michelle Wie’s golf. Class tells. I’ll pass this obvious hype for what it is, a sleazy attempt to puff up interest in a local-interest novel by mentioning somebody famous. Amanda Peet’s sake!
December 1st, 2005 at 4:15 pm
I hear you. If only I had a novel I could plug.
What’s great is that this book’s been out for a while now and there was never any mention of this “similarity” before I read the press release this morning.
Now excuse me while I finish writing my “Weblog reporting on Wie doubts veracity of publisher’s claim of coincedence or foreknowledge” press release for Sunday’s wires.