Richard playfully flicks the lighter near Sasha’s skirt, as well as near Lloyd’s sleeve. With encouragement from Jamal, Richard lights Sasha’s skirt before exiting the rear of the bus. By the time ...

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater hasn’t exactly followed either of those paths, but, on its own steadily paced journey, and nearly two years after FSG published it in October 2017, the book landed on ...

Sasha and Richard shared an eight-minute bus commute on the 57 Bus, each to their perspective school and back. Both were from Oakland, but from very different backgrounds.

In 2013, something terrible happened on the 57 bus in Oakland, California. Then-18-year-old Sasha Fleischman fell asleep riding the bus home from school holding their Russian literature reading ...