By following her over four years award winning journalist erika hayasaki shows how norma 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 on death norma helps kids who are barely hanging on to understand not only the value of their own lives but also . The death class a true story about life by erika hayasaki tells about an actual class called the death class taught by norma bowe the author of this book took the class for four years and there is a three year waiting list to get into it the author tells the true stories of four of the students which are fantastic. 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 on death norma helps kids who are barely hanging on to understand not only the value of . 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 on death norma helps kids who are barely hanging on to understand not only the value of