The Lines That Make Us is a collection of thirty stories and thirty photographs by Seattle bus driver Nathan Vass

“Vass witnesses surprising generosity and bitter conflicts on his daily trips, and he records it all. He’s written about race, and gender roles, and the changing face of Seattle, and art, and feces, and pretty much everything else you’ll find on public transportation.” —Paul Constant

“Read this beautiful book about junkies and hookers and bankers and lawyers in the last place in America they can’t avoid each other.” —Paul Currington Nathan

“...describes the riders—often poor, often not white, often going to bad news, often just being in the world—with a prose that’s at once elegant, rhythmical, and clear.” —Charles Tonderai Mudede