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Thirteen Reasons Why is about a girl named Hannah Baker and the impact she leaves behind after committing suicide. The story is told from the perspective of a fellow student named Clay who receives a box of tapes. Yes, tapes, as in cassette tapes. He plays the first tape unaware of what he will hear, only to find the voice of a dead girl telling her story. She leaves a map literally and figuratively of how she arrived at her life-ending decision. Only the people named on the tapes are the ones who receive them. Clay spends the majority of the book baffled as to why he could be one of the people named, all of whom seemingly indirectly caused her to kill herself.
It is disturbing, truthful, and makes me terrified to know that I too, will one day have a teenager living in my house.
What are you reading this week?
I read this one a long time ago and loved it! It's definitely a tough subject, but was well done. I just finished A House in the Sky (about Amanda Lindhout), which was interesting and good!
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