The Class of Covid-19 began as a narrative project in Mr. Adler's Composition I class at Cliffside Park High School. 

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The stories in the first collection of memoirs were born of the urge to find something of value in our search for lost things at the epicenter of the American plague: grandmas and grandpas, proms and graduations, friends and dreams and future possibilities.  

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The first edition of this book came out in June and included forty-nine student stories. Fears at that time were acute as our area was hard hit. Students had tangible losses and immediate concerns.

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But if the first edition was about dreams, the second edition is full of waking nightmares. Students talk of the never-ending roller coaster due to COVID and a world without God and how everything seems fake. They write of repetition and the existential horrors of feeling both unsafe and without hope.  

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For many, this collection became a lifeline, a way to become the heroes of their own stories while making money for their future education. 100% of all profits for the book have and always will go right back to the student scholars at the very epicenter of the Corona outbreak. 
 

An international sensation, these three books have been praised at all levels of American government, been publicized on both broadcast and print media, and have paved the way for a new kind of vulnerability in student storytelling. 

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"He should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise." - Albert Camus​