Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus
Review
The final novel from a great American storyteller.
Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the
legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of
the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an
eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for
"female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to
ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There
Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate-bossy, opinionated,
argumentative, and tyrannical--is nothing like her sister. She henpecks
her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can't seem to get
on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him
back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it
turns out, Donal isn't traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to
fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair
light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble
of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way.
Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet
gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on
countless readers.
