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‘13 Reasons Why’: Yes, the TV Series Is Just as Good as the Book

In short: yes, no, and no. The spirit, the tone, and the purpose of the book’s story — which unfolds the reasons why high schooler Hannah Baker committed suicide, via a set of cassette tapes she recorded and arranged to have delivered to some of her classmates after her death — are intact through the series. Hannah’s classmate and friend Clay Jensen, whose listening to the tapes helps unwind the mystery of what led Hannah to such a desperate place, is the narrator of the story in Asher’s novel,