![]() ![]() ![]() 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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