Thirteen reasons why not?

A young life, full of promise, ended much too soon. By suicide. Teen suicide. The third leading cause of death among young people aged 15 to 24.

The story is Jay Asher's Thirteen reasons why. High school student Hannah Baker, bright, attractive, someone you'd like to be around. Only she's not there anymore. But she's left behind a little going-away present for some of those she's left behind. A set of cassette tapes naming thirteen people who, in Hannah's mind, played a part in her decision to end her life. Clay, one of the thirteen people, receives the tapes in the mail unexpectedly, and spends a torturous night listening to her voice and visiting places in their town where significant (to Hannah) events had transpired. Part of his motivation in listening to the tapes is fear. If he doesn't listen to the tapes, then send them on to the person whose "story" follows his, Hannah has arranged for another set of the tapes to be made public. Clay is also motivated to find out why Hannah feels he's partly responsible for her decision to kill herself.

There's no question Hannah went through some pretty torturous stuff after transferring to her new school. Being the new kid is never easy but things start out fairly well, with friendships developing with a some other people her age. But then it starts to go badly when she finds herself first objectified, then betrayed, then lied about, spied on, belittled, misunderstood, and then attends the teen party from hell where one unconscious girl is raped and another teen under the influence has a minor accident that eventually winds up costing another teen his life.

But Clay isn't really the cause of any of the bad things that happen to her. His behavior is pretty exemplary all around-- aside from being a little too smitten with Hannah to actually approach her, which, he finds out on the tapes, would have been quite welcome by Hannah. But she never allowed herself to communicate that to him. Indeed, that's the story's weakness. The fact that much of what she relates was misinformation about her. But it could also be viewed as a lack of communication. By her. She's only now taking the opportunity to clear the air after she's already dead (or soon will be) and the information can't save her. It can only hurt others. Her story is no longer a tragedy, it's a revenge fantasy. And it's a horrible thing she does to herself and to the others in her tragic tale-- however deserving of blame they may be. At some point she very deliberately made the decision to end her own life. She even goes to a school counselor to, supposedly, talk about some things that are bothering her. Then stops the exchange before the counselor can begin to understand her problems. Rather than using a service that was designed to help students in pain, she warped the process, going through the motions, but withholding any information that would have revealed the depths of her despair and instead leaves after saying that the exchange was helpful. And Clay? The good guy? The one she really liked and who liked her? She literally pushed him away.

This is not to belittle her pain but don't be fooled into assuming that Hannah is the tragic victim. She's not an innocent who at some point was driven to the (wrong) decision that her life wasn't worth living and that the human beings, flawed as they (and we) occasionally must be, are deserving of the punishment she metes out from beyond the grave.

Clay is the victim here. His perspective of events is often at odds with what Hannah is relating. But he'll get to find out something than Hannah will never know: that high school is something you can survive.