From DHD – Universal and Strike Entertainment have acquired Jay Asher’s bestselling YA novel,Thirteen Reasons Why, as a star vehicle for Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place). Jennifer O’Kieffe has been set to adapt the novel; Strike’s Eric Newman and Marc Abraham are producing, along with Mandy Teefey of July Moon Productions.
Thirteen Reasons Why tells the story of seven cassette tapes recorded by Hanna Baker before she committed suicide. She gave them to a classmate with instructions to pass them on to a list of thirteen students, like a chain letter, to explain how they played a role in her death.
Book Jacket:
Jay Asher’s brilliant first novel is a moving, highly original story that focuses on a set of audiotapes made by a girl before she committed suicide, and which explain to 13 people the reasons why she decided to end her life. Told in a highly effective duel narrative — alternating between the girl s voice and the thoughts of a boy who is listening — this honest, poignant story reveals how other people’s actions shape, and by extension can ruin, an individual’s faith in people. Intensely powerful and painfully real, Thirteen Reasons Why reveals how brutal high school can be, the consequences of spreading rumors, and the lasting effects of suicide on those left behind
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