The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 1999
Devastation Rating
trauma mental health literary fiction friendship loss
Our Take
Charlie writes letters to a stranger and they accumulate into something broken and beautiful. Chbosky writes adolescent pain without condescension — the trauma is real, the loneliness is vast, the hunger for connection so large it nearly swallows the novel. The thing that is not said until it is said changes everything.
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