16- year old Clay Jensen finds a shoebox containing a map and seven audio tapes on his doorstep. The tapes were recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate. Hannah is dead - she committed suicide two weeks earlier. In one night, listening to Hannah’s voice and following her directions through town, Clay discovers the thirteen reasons that led to her death - and why he is one of them.

This book is fast-paced and gripping, Hannah’s laconic, eerie voice is haunting - but rather than exploit the difficult topic of teen suicide for the purposes of writing a ‘suspense novel’, Asher does it considerate justice by writing credibly and authentically, with a fitting sense of urgency and sadness. Hannah speaks frankly, in brief anecdotes, about depression, bitching, backstabbing, sexual pressure, and their dangerous potency to set off severe, unforeseen reactions.

A bestseller in the US, this novel will give its readers plenty to think about.