The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
First published 1999
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming of age novel about 15 year old Charlie who is about to enter high school as a freshman, alone and without any friend. His only friend, Michael, has committed suicide before the school year starts. Now that’s quite different for a beginning of a book isn’t it? The entire book is basically Charlie’s letters to an anonymous person, a stranger. He writes these letters so he can cope with all the stress and anxiety of being alone, of being different, of being strange in the eyes of the people around him, of being a wallflower. Continue reading
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