{"id":43051,"date":"2017-11-10T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43051"},"modified":"2018-01-29T23:01:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:01:41","slug":"57-bus-true-story-two-teenagers-crime-changed-lives-dashka-slater-shelf-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/57-bus-true-story-two-teenagers-crime-changed-lives-dashka-slater-shelf-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater [in Shelf Awareness]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nOn November 4, 2013, two students on their way home overlap by eight minutes while riding the 57 bus across Oakland, Calif. Sasha, a private school senior, has Asperger’s syndrome, was assigned male at birth, identifies as agender (neither male nor female), uses the pronoun “they” and prefers wearing skirts. They’ve dozed off reading\u00a0Anna Karenina<\/em>\u00a0for their Russian literature class.<\/p>\n

Richard, a public school junior, stands “[a] few feet away… laughing and joking” with a cousin and friend. The threesome “goof around, play fighting.” And then Richard “surreptitiously flicks a lighter and touches it to the hem of [Sasha’s] gauzy white skirt.”<\/p>\n

Sasha wakes in flames. Richard jumps off the bus. Sasha spends weeks enduring multiple surgeries in a San Francisco burn unit. Richard is arrested and charged as an adult for two felonies with hate-crime clauses.<\/p>\n

In so many ways, the crime appears to be a black-and-white case of wrong vs. right. But award-winning journalist Dashka Slater<\/a> \u2013 whose initial 2015\u00a0New York Times Magazine<\/em>\u00a0piece<\/a> went viral \u2013 deconstructs easy assumptions in stringent detail, supported by such sources as video from the bus, public records and eyewitness interviews. She reveals surprising details that don’t seem to make sense, including a letter to the Alameda County district attorney sent jointly from the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Transgender Law Center arguing\u00a0against<\/em>\u00a0Richard being tried as an adult: “‘…you can demonstrate your office’s commitment to protecting the victims of hate crimes without imposing adult sanctions on juvenile offenders.\u2019” Knowing what happened doesn’t equate to understanding\u00a0how<\/em>\u00a0something happened, Slater proves, as she mesmerizingly shifts this true crime into a multi-layered lesson on the healing power of humanity.<\/p>\n

Discover:\u00a0<\/strong>Journalist Dashka Slater expands her\u00a0New York Times Magazine<\/em>\u00a0article about a crime involving two Oakland, Calif., students.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: \u201cChildren\u2019s & Young Adult,\u201d Shelf Awareness<\/em>, November 10, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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