


This is a story of two people who do not belong in each other’s lives, who find each other at a time when they desperately need someone who doesn’t belong in their lives. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again. 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. Synopsis (Goodreads): From the acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real Life, an achingly real and profoundly moving love story in the vein of Rainbow Rowell and John Green, about two Minnesota teens whose lives become intertwined through school, role-playing games, and a chance two-a.m. Genre: Realistic/Contemporary YA Fiction and YA romance Published: May 27th 2014 by Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Gamer girls and metal guys: this one hooked me at the synopsis, and I wasn’t at all disappointed.
