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.Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, Riding the Bus with My Sister is "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald)
- ISBN10 1455526169
- ISBN13 9781455526161
- Publish Date 5 March 2013 (first published 26 August 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 400
- Language English