![]() ![]() She soon looks forward to hopping online every day and escaping the monotony of her day to day school life. ![]() 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.įrom acclaimed teen author ( Little Brother, For the Win) and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow and Koko Be Good creator Jen Wang, In Real Life is a perceptive and high-stakes look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture clash.īeing a gamer, I loved the premise of In Real Life, the unremarkable Anda finding a purpose within the MMORPG world of Coursegold Online and getting paid for it in real dollars. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends.īut 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. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. Published by First Second on October 14th 2014Īnda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time. ![]()
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