He keeps listening as the stories get worse, just waiting for his name to come up. In her first tape, she requests the tapes to be passed along to those mentioned in them and Clay Jensen ends up listening to them. Stories of students that he sees everyday, and stories that he can’t believe are true. The novel follows Hannah Baker, a teenager girl who commits suicide and leaves behind a series of tapes explaining the reasons and the people who contributed to her unfortunate end. When Clay begins listening to the tapes, he hears stories. The tapes were sent to the first person on them and instructed that person to pass it on to the next person on the tapes after listening to them at the risk of releasing a second set to the public if they didn’t. One tape for each person that influenced her decision. Until he receives a set of 13 numbered tapes detailing why she decided to commit suicide. Not many people know why, and those who do are of course staying silent.Ĭlay Baker doesn’t know much either. I would highly recommend this book to whoever feels that they can handle the content as it is truly one of the better books that I’ve read recently. The way that the story is told is so unique, and even though it addresses some sensitive issues, I feel that the backlash surrounding the story is mainly due to the problems with the TV show and not the book itself. This book was truly phenomenal in my opinion.
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