Riding the Bus with My Sister : A True Life Journey

by Simon, Rachel (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780452284555
• ISBN10: 0452284554
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780547344843
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

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 Sisteris "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald).

Author Biography

Rachel Simon is the author of a novel, The Magic Touch; a collection of stories, Little Nightmares, Little Dreams; and The Writer's Survival Guide. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College.

Table of Contents

January The Journey	p. 1
The Time of Snows and Sorrow	p. 21
February Hitting the Road	p. 27
The Professor	p. 31
Fighting	p. 42
March The Pilgrim	p. 49
Streetwise	p. 58
Into Out There	p. 67
April The Dreamer	p. 81
The Drivers Room	p. 88
The End of Play	p. 96
May Lunch with Jesse	p. 107
Matchmaker	p. 123
The Pursuit of Happiness	p. 127
June The Earth Mother	p. 133
Disabilities	p. 141
Goodbye	p. 152
July The Optimist	p. 157
Break Shot	p. 168
Gone	p. 171
August The Loner	p. 175
Nowhere	p. 189
Be Not Afraid	p. 190
Inside the Tears	p. 195
September The Jester	p. 201
Surgery	p. 209
Releasing the Rebel	p. 216
October The Hunk	p. 225
The Price of Being Human	p. 233
Come Home, Little Girl	p. 238
November The Girlfriend	p. 247
The Eighteenth Hole	p. 252
December Swans and Witches	p. 265
Finding the Twin	p. 272
Iz Gonna Be All Right	p. 275
January Beyond the Limits of the Sky	p. 279
A Year and a Half Later The Miracle Maker	p. 291
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