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You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.

13 Reason Why

The AudioBiography of Hannah Baker

The rules are pretty simple. There are only two. Rule number one: you listen.

Number two: you pass it on. Hopefully, neither one will be easy for you (from

Before Hannah Baker, high school junior, swallowed a handful of pills, she

recorded her voice onto seven audiotapes. She packed them in a shoebox and

mailed them to Justin, the first boy who kissed her. Then, she returned home

Two weeks later, when Clay Jensen opens the package with no return

address, he has no idea what's on the tapes. Which is kind of exciting . . . until

he presses play. Out comes the voice of Hannah Baker. She tells a seemingly

random story about the first boy she kissed and the betrayal felt when he told

A rumor, based on a kiss, is just the beginning. Turn the tape over for

Thirteen stories about thirteen people in her life—but that's not all. Before

mailing the tapes, Hannah marked thirteen city maps with red stars and

delivered them to each person mentioned on the tapes; each star corresponds

with places referenced on the tapes. As the stories unfold, Clay visits the stars

to better understand Hannah's story . . . and to better understand his role in it.

The original synopsis Jay Asher used when submitting Thirteen Reasons Why to publishers: