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Nora Ephron's 1983 novel Heartburn is regularly described as autobiographical. That characterization is apt-there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel's narrator Rachel Samstat, and those of Ephron but it should not be taken to mean that all the people and events depicted in Heartburn are based on actual people and events. The novel is largely pure invention, and readers who neglect this fact and instead try to identify more and more real-life analogues thus risk       
Which choice most logically completes the text?
overemphasizing the extent to which Ephron took inspiration from earlier writers.
A
positing unsupportable connections between Heartburn and Ephron's life.
B
misrepresenting Heartburn as being more widely read than it actually is.
C
minimizing the fact that Ephron drew on real-world material when writing Heartburn.
D