Last bus to is a modern-day Huckleberry Finn Story, that takes place in 1951, when 11 year old Donal Cameron is happy living in Montana with his grandmother. Grandmother is in need of a female surgery, so Donal is sent a across country on a "Dog Bus" (Greyhound) to live with an aunt that he has never met in Wisconsin.
Soon after arising at aunt Kate's home he realized that it was not the place for him. So he and uncle Herman the German,who decided to fly the coop with him, head out on their "freedom" ride back to Montana.
Of course there is a happy ending but it is the adventures that Donal and later he and Herman encounter, worm their way through, kept me reading.
In Memorian Remembering Ivan Doig
1937 - 2015
"If I have any creed that I wish you as reader. necessary accomplices in that flirtious ceremony of writing and reading, will take you from my pages, it'd be this belief of mine that writers of caliber can ground their work specific land and lingo and yet be writing of that larger country life"
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