Surprising and revelatory non-fiction from a talented young writer whose last book, CATARACT CITY, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Prize, and was a Globe Best Book. But before writing that novel, Davidson experienced a period of poverty and despair. That was the first step towards an unlikely new career: driving a school bus full of special-needs kids for a year. He shows us how his evolving relationship with the kids on that bus, each of them struggling physically as well as emotionally and socially, slowly but surely changed his life.