From the acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real
Life, an achingly real and profoundly moving love story about two teens
that National Book Award-finalist Sara Zarr has called "wholly original
and instantly classic."
It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl
collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears
black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her
skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG.
They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to
each other again.
But they don't.
This is a story of the roles we all play--at school, at home, online,
and with our friends--and the one person who might be able to show us
who we are underneath it all.