Asher, Jay. (2007) Thirteen Reasons Why. New York: The Penguin Group.



Summary
Asher, Jay. (2007) Thirteen Reasons Why. New York: The Penguin Group.  This a very sad and traumatic story is about a young lady by the name of Hannah Baker.  Hannah narrates the 13 reasons contributing to her  deciding to commit suicide.  These reasons unfortunately,  involve several of her classmates and herself as well.  The story starts off by Hannah sending the box to her first contributor and classmate, Clay Jenson.  As Clay listens to the haunting tapes, he narrates how he played a part in Hannah's death considering he was an admirer of Hannah. 

Critique
The story was very cleverly written.  Her you have dual narrative, Hannnah Hannah articulating the reasons for unltimately ending her life and Jason her classmate trying to figure out why he is even on the list.  Although there are several cadences in this story, I found myself reading through the cadences because I like Clay, wanted to know who, were the other classmates on the list  and where did they played a part in Hannah's demise.  This was a very exciting reading.  I fealt as though I was in the town of the occurrences.  I recomend this book to ages 12 and up.

Connections
If you are interested in this book, you would probably like these books as well.
1.  "Before I Fall " by Lauren
2.  "The Future of Us" by Jay Asher
3.  "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
4.  "Why We Broke Up" by Daniel Handler

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