This book is about a 15 year old boy called Charlie. Charlie is an introverted teenager who has just started his first year at High School. Having no friends at first he writes letters about his life at High School. The key story in the letters being how Charlie became friends with Sam and Patrick.
The letters form the basis of the novel, which deals with a number of teenage issues. The issues include sex and sexuality, drugs, relationships and emotions. Charlies is a bookish teenager who is trying to learn to survive in social situations for the first time.
Personally as the reader I can relate to Charlie and how he finds the extroverted world of partying and drug taking alien. I connected well with the main character and enjoyed the style of Chosky's writing. It is similar to the Catcher in the Rye but much more focused on the emotions of a person considered as a social outcast my most of his peers.
I would recommend this book to anybody who likes to read YA fiction and is understanding of the challenges of being an introvert in a world dominated by extroverts.
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