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WIJFR: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - YA fiction, SP
I'll make this a spoiler post since my GR shows that I'm late to the party.
This is actually the third time I've borrowed this book from the library. The first time I returned it immediately after realizing what it was about. The second time I meant to read it, I really did. This time I finished it.
When I was a sophomore in HS, one of my best friends since kindergarten committed suicide the same way Hannah did -- with pills. And we were in shock. My little group of friends had absolutely no idea that she was even contemplating it, or that she may have been on antidepressants, or that she just didn't feel right. She was beautiful, a straight A student, a brilliant artist, played the violin, and had recently won a Young Authors scholarship award for a short story. She didn't have a reputation, she had a boyfriend who was cute and funny. Her family seemed to adore her, her father died when she was a baby and her mother and grandmother weren't strict. They were just average middle class people from our average middle class town.
After dissecting every second of the days leading up to when my mom drove the carpool and we dropped her off at her house after school that day, to the next day when the mom driving the carpool the next morning said that she didn't need a ride to school that day (why wouldn't she have just told us, why let us find out through rumors at school?), the only answer is that she didn't feel confident enough in our friendships to think she could confide in anyone, and nobody asked the right questions, and we were so absorbed in our own 15-year old lives to notice. It was just completely inexplicable.
So yeah, this book hit home, like I knew it would. And it makes me wonder if there were a similar series of unrelated events that were a trigger, little things that nobody really thought anything of, that when connected in the spiderweb of life makes anything really make sense. And if there was something that I could have done that could have made it just a little bit better.
Re: WIJFR: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - YA fiction, SP
I can only imagine how hard it would be to read this book. I know it really opened my eyes when I read it.
It's such a tough subject but I am glad some authors touch it.