Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

I have always wanted to read something by this author and when this book (his last before he died) became available on Digital Content through the library, I grabbed it up.
I started off really loving the book but have to say that my interest waned as the story progressed.
It is very well written and the characters are alive and zany, but the content of the story did not keep my interest throughout.
Here is a part of the NYTimes review.....the review was very favorable

Donal, raised by his grandmother on a Montana ranch, finds himself packed off to relatives in Manitowoc, Wis., when Gram takes ill. The boy sets out the old-fashioned way: He’s a lone wolf riding the dog. “And here I was,” he recalls, “stepping up into what I thought of as the real bus, with GREYHOUND — THE FLEET WAY TO TRAVEL in red letters on its side and, to prove it, the silver streamlined dog of the breed emblematically running flat-out as if it couldn’t wait to get there.”

The journey passes pleasantly enough, thanks to the huge cast of characters hopping on and off. Nuns and drunk shepherds, cops and cons, Korea-bound soldiers, dreamy waitresses and burly Indians, “they all filled in the dizzying span of my thoughts like a private version of ‘Believe It or Not!’ ”