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The Death Class : A True Story About Life by Erika Hayasaki; OverDrive, Inc is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Death Class : A True Story About Life about?

The poignant, "powerful" ( The Boston Globe ) look at how to appreciate life from an extraordinary professor who teaches about death: "Poetic passages and assorted revelations you'll likely not forget" ( Chicago Tribune ). Why does a college course on death have a three-year waiting list? When nurse Norma Bowe decided to teach a course on death at a college in New Jersey, she never expected it to be popular. But year after year students crowd into her classroom, and the reason is clear: Norma's "death class" is really about how to make the most of what poet Mary Oliver famously called our "one wild and precious life." Under the guise of discussions about last wills and last breaths and visits to cemeteries and crematoriums, Norma teaches her students to find grace in one another. In The Death Class , award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki followed Norma for more than four years, showing how she steers four extraordinary students from their tormented families and neighborhoods toward happiness: she rescues one young woman from her suicidal mother, helps a young man manage his schizophrenic brother, and inspires another to leave his gang life behind. Through this unorthodox class o

Who reads The Death Class : A True Story About Life?

Author

Erika Hayasaki; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451642957

Category

self-help

Subjects

Education, Gender Studies, Science

Rating

3.7 / 5 (1,014 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14