When Clay Jensen- a quiet, shy high school student- returns home from school one day to find a package from an anonymous person sitting on his doorstep, he opens it to discover a cassette tape recorded by a girl at his high school who had committed suicide and learns thirteen reasons for why she killed herself- and he is one of those reasons.

Jay Asher released his debut novel in 2007, which has since been banned from schools for being “unsuitable for the targeted age group”; and containing offensive language and sexually explicit text; and “references to suicide, drugs, alcohol, and smoking.”

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