How ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ Saved My Life
And why I’ll never watch the Netflix series
Nov 3 · 7 min read
*TRIGGER WARNING: suicide, depression*
When I was 11 years old, I bought a hardback copy of Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher at a Target in Dallas, Texas. I could never have predicted the impact that this book would have on me – a greater effect than any other book I would read as a child, and I read voraciously. My family have always been big readers. We have always lost ourselves in books. Thirteen Reasons Why was the first book in which I felt I had been found.


