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 lastâ€”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)

Riding the Bus with My Sister

Biographies & Memoirs

Rachel Simon

Community & Culture

PRENTICE/HALL

Riding The Bus With My Sister

Hodder

<p>Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2011-11-1 Pages: 392 Publisher: Hachette It is 1968 Lynnie. a young white woman with a developmentaldisability. and Homan. an African American deaf man. are lockedaway in an institution. the School for the Incurable. andFeebleminded. and have been left to languish. forgotten. Deeply inlove. they escape. and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha. aretired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynniehas just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch upto them that same night. Homan escapes into the darkness. andLynnie is caught But before she is forced back into theinstitution. she whispers two words to Martha:.. Hide her And sobegins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie. Homan. Martha . and babyJulia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles. yetdrawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.</p>

The Story of Beautiful Girl

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Hachette

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