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<p><P>Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her sister at long last-teaching her to slow down and enjoy the ride. <P>Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, <i>Riding the Bus with My Sister</i> is "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald).</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>This perceptive, uplifting chronicle shows how much Simon, a creative writing professor at Bryn Mawr College, had to learn from her mentally retarded sister, Beth, about life, love and happiness. Beth lives independently and is in a long-term romantic relationship, but perhaps the most surprising thing about her, certainly to her (mostly) supportive family, is how she spends her days riding buses. Six days a week (the buses don't run on Sundays in her unnamed Pennsy

Who reads Riding the Bus with My Sister : a True Life Journey?

Author

Simon, Rachel, 1959-

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co.; Plume

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618045990

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.73 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14