![]() “Online gaming and real life collide when a teen discovers the hidden economies and injustices that hide among seemingly innocent pixels. ![]() In Real Life is a touching and morally complex tale for young adults. 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. ![]() Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.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 meet people from all over the world, and make friends. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. ![]() From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang comes a New York Times-bestelling graphic novel that takes a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.Īnda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. ![]()
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