Jay Asher
320 pgs
Razorbill (2007)
Subject Matter: death, suicide, high school, bullying, betrayal, drinking, rape, loss, love
Hannah has committed suicide and has left a set of tapes behind prescribed to go to a certain number and order of people who help tell the story as to why she killed herself. Clay Jensen is the classmate with the audiotapes who's perspective the story is told from. The book winds together the tapes (Hannah's voice) with memories and thoughts of Clay. Each person that receives the tapes has a tape dedicated specifically to them and how their story adds to the others on the thirteen reasons why Hannah committed suicide.
Review: Well done. It uses a different type of style of writing, a reflective style where it is necessary to bring both the past and the future onto the same page and intertwine them. This story of Hannah shows how every thing we do affects others, no matter how small. It is important that we take care as to how we treat people and what we say to them.
Now You Know: Some language, very controversial storyline--did Hannah really have the excuse to commit suicide, graphic scenes
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