The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky published in 1999.

The story takes place in early 1990s when a 15 year old, socially awkward teenager Charlie starts writing anonymous letter to an unknown recipient. The plot takes off with Charlie's first year at high school after the suicide of his best friend  mixed with his harmful childhood memories of his favourite aunt Helen's tragic death,

The letters are the story itself which helps the author to create a very intimate connection with the reader. 

After a series of events triggering different emotions  that Charlie has never thought he would experience he decides to move on and try to "participate" in life. The moral of the story is, "Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."

This book would make a great fiction for anyone at any stage of life to experience a wild spectrum of emotions a 15 year boy would have.