As a military brat, Brad Edwards is used to being uprooted. But nothing he has seen in his first seventeen years prepares him for the little North Florida town where he lands in 1968 after his father retires. The world he left is chaos, but he finds Lake Osmond even more confusing -- at once more intimate and more distant, more trivial and more consequential, more embracing and potentially far more dangerous. When Brad resolves to speak out against injustice, he learns that cultures rubbing against one another have a way of igniting sparks that can burst into flames. Bus Left follows him as he navigates the cascade of events that eventually threaten his life.