I haven't read that many graphic novels before, but I had seen this one around the internet and decided to give it a go. When I went to Portland, Oregon, I visited Powell's Books (the greatest place on earth), and one of the books I picked up was this super cute graphic novel, In Real Life by Cory Doctorow (illustrated by Jen Wang). 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. 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. Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time.
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