Bestseller del New York Times

Ganador del Premio Stonewall Book Award

Uno de los Mejores Libros del siglo XXI, según Kirkus Reviews

Bus 57 hará que te replantees todo lo que crees saber sobre raza, clase, género, crimen y castigo. Dashka Slater recompone, con compasión y maestría, la historia real de un adolescente no binario que sufre un crimen de odio a manos de un chico afroamericano y en la ciudad más diversa del país.

Dos versiones de la misma historia. Dos rostros de una tragedia.

Si no fuera por el autobús 57, Sasha y Richard nunca se habrían conocido. Ambos eran estudiantes de secundaria en Oakland, California, pero vivían en mundos diferentes. Sasha vivía en un barrio de clase media y asistía a una pequeña escuela privada. Richard era alumno de una de las escuelas públicas más grande de la zona.

Cada día, sus caminos se cruzaban durante escasos ocho minutos, en la ruta del bus 57. Pero una tarde, en el viaje de regreso a casa, un acto imprudente de Richard ocasionó graves quemaduras a Sasha. El caso atrajo la atención internacional, llevando a ambos al centro de los reflectores.

La periodista galardonada Dashka Slater investiga la tragedia y demuestra que, lo que al principio podría parecer un acto de bien y mal, justicia e injusticia, víctima y criminal, es un acontecimiento mucho más complejo y desgarrador.

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A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller

Stonewall Book Award Winner

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)

The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.

Two ends of the same line. Two sides of the same crime.

If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a Black teen, lived in the economically challenged flatlands and attended a large public one.

Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight. But in The 57 Bus, award-winning journalist Dashka Slater shows that what might at first seem like a simple matter of right and wrong, justice and injustice, victim and criminal, is something more complicated—and far more heartbreaking.