Clay listens to the tapes to try and depict his part within Hannah's suicide as she took too many pills two weeks before the box of tapes arrived on his doorstep.
She gets objectified as a woman with jokes amongst the class about hot or not girls and even having a peeping tom spying on her all the time until they catch him out. As the book goes on and the tapes unravel, the events leading up to her death become shrouded in sadness as she witnesses events she can't get over. Her efforts to reach out for support and help fall flat thanks to a useless guidance counsellor and poor Clay was a party that cared the most about Hannah from afar.
It was quite an emotional book but eye opening to the fact that we need to look closer to spot the signs and help each other through the tough times. It touches on real life hard issues that are becoming more openly talked about especially thanks to literature.
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