It is about a boy-Clay-who comes home from school one day to find a package on his doorstep, no return address. Inside, are seven audiocassets. He puts them in a tapeplayer (his parents must be dinosaurs [kidding]) It's the voice of Hannah Baker, who OD on a handfull of pills a couple of weeks back. She has recorded one story on each side if the tapes-with the exception of one side. Thirteen reasons why she commited suicide. The rules are simple-lisiten to all the stories and pass them along to the person whose story comes after yours. If you dont-well, some one has a copy of the tapes and they'll release them to the world, and everyone knows your part in her death.
The book is designed to show how the little things you do effect people's lives-sometimes good, and sometimes absoultly horrible.
Although the book is told from the prespective of a male, most of the story comes from Hannah. I'd recomend this to anyone although girls are proabaly more of a target audience. Suicide is, of course, a mature subject, so it takes that kind of person to really read in to the subtextual things Hannah talks about.
It is proabaly one of the best books I ever read.
