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In Real Life by Cory Doctorow

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In Real Life

Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang

First Second · Paperback · October 14, 2014

Reading lane: YA Coming-of-Age Comics

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.

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Why This Clicks

Graphic Momentum

A graphic read with coming-of-age momentum and a clear, approachable edge.

Come here for

  • graphic-novel pacing
  • YA coming-of-age angle

Expect

  • teens-and-tough-material mix
  • sustained, easy-to-stay-with narrative

Book Details

Authors
Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang
Publisher
First Second
Published
October 14, 2014
Format
Paperback
Theme
YA Coming-of-Age Comics · Comics & Society
Reading lane
YA Coming-of-Age Comics

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • YA Coming-of-Age Comics

  • YA Tech & Digital Life

  • Homelessness & Poverty for Teens

About This Book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer—a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake.

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