In Thirteen Reasons Why, Clay Jensen comes home from high school one day to find a shoebox with 7 tapes in it. When he starts to listen to the first tape, he is floored - Hannah Baker's voice is speaking too him. Clay had had a crush on Hannah since she moved to town, but two weeks ago she swallowed a handful of pills. Now her voice is on his stereo telling the story of why she did it and, worst of all, "if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why."Clay spends the rest of the night following Hannah's words around his small town from house to coffee shop to diner to house learning the stories of incidents and people that made her think she had no other choice but to end her life. With Clay, the reader will oscillate between fear, anger, and sadness as Hannah tells her story. "Everything affects everything," she says, and indeed the actions of others that seem to involve her only barely pile up with other events in her life to create a world that she does not feel is livable.
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