Riding the Bus with My Sister A True Life Journey

by Simon, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781455511396
• ISBN10: 1455511390
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-13
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

For the 10thanniversary of this beloved, heartwarming true story, Hachette Book group is proud to release simultaneous Large Print and Audiobook editions. Beth is a spirited woman with an intellectual disability who spends nearly every day riding the buses in her Pennsylvania city. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. Beth, who lives independently and has a boyfriend, is a joyful, endearing, and feisty individual. Her single sister, Rachel, a writer and professor, masks her emotional isolation and loneliness behind her hyperbusy schedule. When Beth asks Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways, leads her to accept her sister at long last-and teaches her to slow down and enjoy the ride. Rachel Simon's memoir Riding the Bus with My Sisterwas made into a television movie starring Rosie O'Donnell and Andie McDowell, directed by Anjelica Huston.

Author Biography

Rachel Simon is an award-winning author and nationally known public speaker. She is best known for her critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir Riding the Bus with My Sister, which was adapted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie of the same name. The book has garnered numerous awards, and is a frequent and much beloved selection of many book clubs, school reading programs, and city-wide reads throughout the country. Simon is also the author of the bestselling novel The Story of Beautiful Girl.