One is tempted to compare a priori The world of Charlie works like Juno, because it speaks of a little atypical teen, or books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night of Mark Haddon, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer for striking ressemblence between their main character, décallé in a kind of autism is socially compatible, very different, much more sensitive, highly intelligent and yet never really integrated.
That's a little Charlie, which we discover the story of a school year through letters he sends without really revealing his identity to a person he knows without knowing which one will never know anything. Charlie will be 16 years old, he is second in a school in Pennsylvania, has a big brother who will enter university as a football player, a sister who is terminal and begins to be interested in boys, father smart enough and loving enough mother cleared.
In high school, he has no friends since his best friend Michael committed suicide. He then meet Sam and Patrick, a boy and a girl he thinks couple before he discovers they are actually half-brothers and half-sisters. He immediately falls in love with beautiful Sam, and integrate unblinking Patrick is gay and secretly frequents the quarterback of the high school team.
Taken under their wing, he will go against a world he had never been confronted, and sometimes if its plot or behavior problem, he can always count on their continued friendship recover.
The world of Charlie is a pretty novel somewhat décallé, which allows to quickly read and whose narrative one voice does not really pose a problem. A pretty ordinary teen romance in the background, but in the original form, with a very endearing character.
