Crazy dad modern book burner

[tko_ak]

Ok, that's taking some creative license, but the idea is the same: a Virginia father has freaked the hell out because his 16-year-old son brought home the novel "Perks of Being a Wallflower" from school. Apparently the book centers around a boy who is a freshman in high school, and explores issues like homosexuality and drugs

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[paper_crystals]

From what I can tell (having read the book recently) Perks of Being a Wallflower is practically the definition of a high school book.

[tko_ak]

What does it discuss of homosexuality? The father made it sound like it was explicit, or a major theme. Which I have a difficult time believing, but I haven't read the book so I don't know.

[paper_crystals]

One of the football players has an affair with the protagonist's friends. The book mentions that they were caught in bed together by the football player's father which is why they broke up and don't speak to each other. Their affair runs through most of the book.

There are a couple of scenes where the protagonist touches a woman's breasts which as sexually explicit as the book gets as I remember.

The book is really about the protagonist's process of growing up and not really knowing how to talk to anyone but watching everyone.

[paper_crystals]

I totally forgot about those parts. I mostly remembered the break up. Thank you.