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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Jenson, Clay - (Student - Male) Received a tape from a dead classmate along with twelve other people; tape talks about why she commited sucide
The Horn Book
(High School) When high-school student Clay Jensen receives a mysterious package of seven cassettes, he is dumbfounded to discover they are from Hannah Baker, a classmate who committed suicide just two weeks earlier. Over the course of twenty-four hours, Jay attentively listens to Hannah's story as she identifies him as one of the thirteen reasons she chose to end her life. Narrators Johnstone and Wiseman impeccably interpret Clay's anxious musings and Hannah's unrelenting, bitter accusations in alternating monologues. The addition of an emotionally overwrought song provides a saccharine finale to a heretofore riveting study of the adolescent psyche. Copyright 2008 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Reviews
"Everything affects everything," declares Hannah Baker, who killed herself two weeks ago. After her death, Clay Jensen & #8212;who had a crush on Hannah & #8212;finds seven cassette tapes in a brown paper package on his doorstep. Listening to the tapes, Hannah chronicles her downward spiral and the 13 people who led her to make this horrific choice. Evincing the subtle & #8212;and not so subtle & #8212;cruelties of teen life, from rumors, to reputations, to rape, Hannah explains to her listeners that, "in the end, everything matters." Most of the novel quite literally takes place in Clay's head, as he listens to Hannah's voice pounding in his ears through his headphones, creating a very intimate feel for the reader as Hannah explains herself. Her pain is gut-wrenchingly palpable, and the reader is thrust face-first into a world where everything is related, an intricate yet brutal tapestry of events, people and places. Asher has created an entrancing character study and a riveting look into the psyche of someone who would make this unfortunate choice. A brilliant and mesmerizing debut from a gifted new author. (Fiction. YA) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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“If love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If love were a desert, you would see only sand. If love were a star, late at night-only light And if love could grow wings I'd be soaring in flight...”
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Check out the audio version of this book for an even more chilling experience.
I've only read some of it so far and I am hooked. It grabs you and brings you further and furthur. Good read!
This book is amazing!! I higly recommend it to anyone- especially teens. It gives awreness of suicides and how deep they are.
Fantastic book. Very sad but worth the read. I really like the approach that the author took with this subject matter. A great book for teens, parents etc.
I have this book at home. It is very sad and heartbreaking. I wont give out details but lets say its goes right to the core of the reader... unless you have no heart.
OUTSTANDING!!! Thirteen reasons why is an amazing read! Clay follows a carefully planned path of a dead man across his town... And learns the thirteen reasons why she did what she did... so mysterious, heartbreaking and full of twists!
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