Guy in Real Life, by Steve Brezenoff
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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.
Guy in Real Life, by Steve Brezenoff- Amazon Sales Rank: #1383444 in Books
- Brand: Brezenoff, Steve
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Released on: 2015-05-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .90" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—After some late night drinking at a heavy metal show, high school sophomore Lesh Tungsten literally runs into senior Svetlana Allegheny when her bicycle crashes into him. What begins as an accident evolves from wariness to friendship, especially after Lesh discourages an unwanted admirer of Svetlana's. They soon discover their mutual interest in gaming—he, online, and she, role-playing—and as they navigate their differences, the teens learn that the roles they play aren't as important as who they really are, especially when together. Whether reading it as a brief glimpse into the world of gaming and MMOs (massively multiplayer online games), a romance, or a tale of self-discovery, Brezenoff's novel works on many levels, and its depth and humor will appeal to many readers. Told in the alternating voices of Lesh, Svetlana, and their online personae Svvetlana and Kugnar, the story deftly navigates the real and virtual worlds of the characters, and while the gamer-speak can be a bit much, it gives the audience a better understanding of who Lesh and Svetlana truly are. Although they are flawed and have traits that are unlikable, they come across as authentic teens who will have readers rooting for them as individuals and as a couple. Their sweet-natured romance isn't overly saccharine and offers a charmingly awkward look at first love, and the supporting characters, particularly Svetlana's friends, are well developed and just as quirky as the main protagonists. For fans of Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl (St. Martin's, 2013), gamers, and readers in-between.—Audrey Sumser, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Mayfield, OH
From Booklist Lesh wears a black trench coat and listens to heavy metal. Svetlana embroiders her flowing skirts and blasts Björk. Lesh, with his bad-boy persona, appeals to Lana in a way she would have never anticipated. And Lesh’s attraction to Lana is so intense that he creates an elf princess, Svetlana, in a MMO game with Lana’s same long blond hair and lithe body. Soon Lesh finds that he can’t wait to play the game and assume a female persona. In the swift, action-filled chapters that describe Lesh’s game, Lana grows in strength and integrity and gains an admirer. Meanwhile, IRL, Lana copes with her disintegrating after-school gaming club, which plays tabletop RPGs. As with Lesh’s online-gaming adventures, Lana’s game scripts play out in engaging stories. The overall effect of the novel, then, is of marvelous fantasy sequences interspersed with the messiness of real-life romance. Lesh’s predicament—that he loves becoming Svetlana as much as he loves Lana—is presented sweetly and believably. Like his easy evocation of gender-free characters in his Brooklyn, Burning (2011), Brezenoff deftly handles one teen’s experience of gender dysphoria. Grades 9-12. --Diane Colson
Review “In a voice full of authentic grit, poetic verve, and real emotion, Steve Brezenoff weaves a tale that feels both wholly original and instantly classic. Another fantastic book from a writer I envy and admire.” (Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist for Story Of a Girl)“In a first-person narration that alternates between the boy in black and the girl dungeon master, Brezenoff conjures a wry, wise and deeply sympathetic portrait of the exquisite, excruciating thrill of falling in love. This is not the teen love story you’ve read a thousand times before.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))“Guy In Real Life is a remarkably original, addictive novel that illuminates the roles we play for others and, ultimately, ourselves. A must-read for anyone who questions who they truly are, and who they could be.” (Nova Ren Suma, author of Imaginary Girls and 17 & Gone)“An idiosyncratic romance that offers plenty of cultural food for thought.” (Publishers Weekly)“I suppose Steve Brezenoff will have to grow up one of these days and forget what it was like to be sixteen, but let’s hope it doesn’t happen too soon—at least not to the part of him that can write a book like Guy in Real Life.” (Pete Hautman, National Book Award-winning author of Godless)“Guy in Real Life is a fascinating, original take on the spaces that exist between who we are and who we hope to be. Virtually everyone will love this book.” (John Corey Whaley, Printz Award--winning author of Where Things Come Back)“The gaming motif adds an intriguing layer, as Brezenoff uses it to explore issues of gender identity. Has [Lesh] created this character because he wants to be with the real Svetlana or because he wants to be her? There is, he realizes, no simple answer.” (Chicago Tribune)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Kind of YA Novel I Like and Appreciate. By Michelle R ** spoiler alert ** Unavoidable Spoilers for this, and Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell! I would recommend both of these authors, even if you read this and know/discover some of the details. These are spoilers, but they're not, imo, SPOILERS!"But I don't get one thing, and it's a kind of important thing," Svetlana says, and here she finally stops and turns to face me. "Do you want to be with me, or do you want to be me?"I recently read Guy in Real Life,* by Steve Brezenoff. I seem to have preordered it. I do that a lot, and then can't remember why. Could have been the cover. Could have been a comparison to Eleanor and Park. Could have been that they have similar covers. As I type this, that seems to job my memory. An article on cover trends!As an unabashed fan of YA, I like a lot of things I'm seeing these days, particularly books about misfits and geeks. Another book I read about a year ago that works for this trend is The Summer I Became a Nerd. "Summer" and "Guy" are very similar in exploring the same gaming world.Guy went to a surprising place, and did so in a way I could have never predicted. Lemme explain.In the beginning, "Guy" reads as a simple love story. Lesh and Lana have a bit of a meet cute, and it seems like their obstacle is going to be that he's a headbanger — is that still the term? — and she's a D&D dungeon master.Where it subtly went a different way is that Lesh, while grounded, gets pulled into World of Warcraft. (Never mentioned by name.) He doesn't find himself interested in playing an orc and gaming with his friend, but secretly creates an elf who looks a whole lot like Lana.This decision could be chalked up to horny boy creating a hot looking female to stare at, who looks like his crush. And this is maybe what it is, or part of what it is, or how it started. As he games, he finds himself slipping into the role of Svvetlana. (Two v's because regularly Svetlana was already used in the game.) He allows other players to think he's female.And there are repercussions. See, not spoiling more than I must for this discussion.I will say that he learns a little of what it's like to be female, including the male gaze, and someone who crosses boundaries in a way that most women either know or fear.Eventually Lana finds out about his character, and asks the question quoted above. And here, for me, is the biggest similarity to Eleanor and Park. Both endings, in the tradition of The Lady or the Tiger? doesn't answer all the questions, instead asking the reader to reach his or her own conclusion. Lesh answers Lana, to an extent, and is honest, but the reader will be left with questions.Like any sane person, I have a love/hate relationship with endings like this. Eleanor and Park has me mentally begging for One More Line!It's clear Lesh likes — like likes — Lana. It's also clear he wishes he could be more like Lana, to what extent is left unclear. Maybe the point is that he doesn't have to know that answer today.Lana, by the way, is terrific. Intelligent, funny, creative. And even formidable.I would recommend this book, all the books mentioned, with a recommend in capital letters for Eleanor and Park! What I think might not work for some readers of Guy in Real Life is a lot of time is spent in the various games, and those are written very realistically, with immersion in those fantasy realms. It's cool and creative, and so very relevant about who Lesh and Lana really are, but if you think nothing ever happens on Mad Men, or that there was no point to the "beetle" scene in Game of Thrones, eh.Of "Guy" and "Summer," I would label "Summer" the more accessible book about gaming and geek culture (and being a girl into these things) if this is foreign territory. I recommend Eleanor and Park to anyone with a soul.**Still, "Guy" raises interested questions about identity and the search for self. The characters feel real, complex, and engaging. I was blow away by how Brezenoff deftly lead me into the book, and had me read a good long way, before I realized some of the issues he'd brought into play. I have to wonder if some of this is because if I, a woman, play WoW as a guy, no one will give me grief — in fact, I'll get less grief, and be allowed to game in piece* — and the exercise never raises questions about identity. My choice would be met with a shrug, a male playing as a female is looked at as dishonest, and his gender identity and sexuality are regarded with suspicion.Good choice, you, in picking this book. Allow me to pat myself on the back.*Guy in Real Life becomes an acronym, G.I.R.L. This refers to men pretending to be women. Some of the "men" undoubtedly would not self-identify as such.**Okay, there are some people with souls who probably didn't like E&P, so please allow me my moment of hyperbole.***But like Lesh, love playing a female blood elf. I prefer a hunter to a healer, though.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Fun, unique, and thought-provoking By Dahlia Adler This was such a fun, interesting, thought-provoking read, and definitely a departure from other contemp YA romances I've read! Lesh is a brand-new gamer, just discovering MMORPGs, and both the joy of online communities and the tempting ability to step into someone else's shoes for a while that come along with it. Meanwhile, Svetlana is a dungeon master, craftsman extraordinaire with crazy amounts of artistic talent and her own gaming community in the form of a school club that can't seem to get it together. Watching them surprise themselves by coming to embrace the other in well-handled alternating POVs is fun and sweet and magical in its own right, particularly after their rocky start and the unginorable fact that neither is quite what what the other thought (s)he'd want in a partner.But the real magic of G.I.R.L. is in the gaming world, from Brezenoff's clever deconstruction of what it's like to be a gamer as a girl (and the total creep factors that come into play) to the inherent self-ID confusion that often comes along with immersing yourself so deeply in another being.As someone whose games of choice have always been RPGs (though single-player ones, because I'm a completely incompetent gamer), there was so much added joy in reading this and feeling my fingers get all itchy to jump on a computer. I couldn't say how this translates to either more serious gamers or those with no gaming experience at all, but I know I thoroughly enjoyed it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Creative and Fun. By Laura Booksnob Guy In Real Life is a book about a lot of things. It's a book about Lesh, who listens to heavy metal music, wears black clothes and is your average kind of sensitive weird guy who starts playing an online video game after he gets grounded for getting drunk. He admires a beautiful girl from his school named Svetlana and she just happened to drive her bike into him, late one Saturday night. So he creates a online character in her name and plays online as a girl, even though he is a guy in real life.Svetlana is a role playing gamer and is the head of the RPG gaming club at her school. She is an artist and draws many of the monsters for the game. She sews and embroiders her clothes and is tall, blonde and beautiful. Your typical senior hippie weird girl. She starts falling for Lesh after they share lunch together and he saves her from a family friendly stalker boy lurking in the lunchroom.Two very different teens from two different socio economic backgrounds tell their story in alternating chapters. The gaming world is also represented with chapters interspersed throughout the book. Guy In Real Life is not your typical love story and it is going to be hard for readers to fit Guy In Real Life into a box or a set category or genre because it is unique and genre bending. There's a little bit of mystery, fantasy, GLBTQ, romance and more. So if you identify with the word, nerd or geek, this might be the perfect book for the nerdish side of you. Nerds Unite! Gamers Unite! Readers Unite!One of the things I really loved about this book was the music the characters interact with. Brezenoff introduces the reader to an interesting playlist of tunes that go from Bjork and Iron Maiden to Captain & Tennille and composer Hector Berlioz. I looked up some of the music and played it. In fact, Brezenoff should create a playlist so you can listen to all the songs listed in the novel. That would be cool. A Novel Playlist?? Steve?One of the things I admire about Brezenoff's writing is that he is creative. He is not afraid to write something that no one has tried before and he takes risks. As readers, we should take risks too and read books outside your comfort zone. Don't you agree?Nerd alert: So let's sing - Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain and Tennille because this song is in the best chapter of the book.
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