Translator: Eunseon Lee
Publisher: Hong-ik Chulpansa
375 pages.
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About This Book
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
Pennsylvania city), all day, she cruises around, chatting up her favorite
drivers, dispensing advice and holding her ground against those who find her a
nuisance. Rachel joined Beth on her rides for a year, a few days every two
weeks, in an attempt to mend their distanced relationship and gain some insight
into Beth's daily life. She wound up learning a great deal about herself and how
narrowly she'd been seeing the world. Beth's community within the transit system
is a much stronger network than the one Rachel has in her hectic world, and some
of the portraits of drivers and the other people in Beth's life are
unforgettable. Rachel juxtaposes this with the story of their childhood,
including the dissolution of their parents' marriage and the devastating
abandonment by their mother, the effect of which is tied poignantly to the
sisters' present relationship. Although she is honest about the frustrations of
relating to her stubborn sister, Rachel comes to a new appreciation of her, and
it is a pleasure for readers to share in that discovery. Agent, Anne Edelstein.
(Aug. 26) Forecast: A blurb from Rosie O'Donnell and an author tour should pique
women readers' interest. --From Publishers Weekly
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