Today I met with a friend I haven't seen for about a year at a small coffee shop nearby. Both of us are avid readers and talked about some of the books we've read recently. One I recommended to her is "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher.
This is a YA book and I can only describe it as heartbreakingly beautiful. It's about teenager Clay who receives a package of cassette tapes one day. When he listens to the first he discovers that they were recorded by Hannah, a classmate and his crush, shortly before she committed suicide two weeks earlier. The tapes are her suicide note.
It took me a few chapters to get into the flow of the writing, getting used to the different way it is written, but once I did it had me turning pages. It's a stunning book and very thought-provoking, one I'll probably read again in the future.
I'll end this today with a quote from the novel:
"I guess that's the point of it all. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same."
I highly recommend this book to all.
Ciao!
CR
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