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 Awardfinalist Sara Zarr has called xwholly original and instantly classic.xIt 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 Bjrk 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 dont.This is a story of the roles we all playat school, at home, online, and with our friendsand the one person who might be able to show us who we are underneath it all.
