In Real Life

By Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang

Subjects: Internet, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Juvenile literature, Web, Popular Culture, Novelas gráficas, Juegos de rol, SELF-HELP, Jóvenes (Mujeres), Women fantasy gamers, Computer games, fiction, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Television, Mathematics, Cartoons and comics, Social Psychology, Divorce, General, Online social networks, New York Times bestseller, PERFORMING ARTS, Comic books, strips, Computer games, Interpersonal relations, Motivational & Inspirational, Internet games, Love & Romance, Fiction, Spanish language materials, Graphic novels, Literatura juvenil, Internet, fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Libros de caricaturas, tiras cómicas, Americans, nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2014-11-02, Comic books, strips, etc., Juvenile fiction, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS, Social aspects, COMPUTERS, Fantasy games, Social Networking, PSYCHOLOGY

Description: 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. 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.