Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box, with his name on it, lying on the porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate - who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she did what she did - and Clay is one of them.
Jay Asher's debut YA novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, has appeared regularly on The New York Times bestsellers list for the past nine years. It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the US alone and is currently in production to be a thirteen-part series on Netflix. His second YA novel, The Future of Us, was co-authored with Printzhonor winner Carolyn Mackler. His novels have been translated into over thirty languages.
