“Keep it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world which has as very much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his pup as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing yet things we chase in these pre-annihilation times: love, a friendly relationship, the solace of the organic world, and the chance to perform some little kindness. The Dog Stars is certainly a wholly powerful and deeply engaging debut.” -Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have got Shifted

about YOUR DOG Stars

A riveting, powerful book in regards to a pilot surviving in a world filled with loss-and what he’s ready to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace.

Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are inactive, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his pup, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter from the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to seafood also to pretend that points are the way they utilized to be. But when a arbitrary transmission in some way beams through his radio, the tone of voice ignites a wish deep inside him a better life-something like his outdated life-exists beyond the airport terminal. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return-not more than enough fuel to get him home-following the path of the static-broken voice on the air. But what he encounters and what he must face-in the people he meets, and in himself-is both better and even worse than anything he could possess hoped for.

Narrated by a guy who is portion warrior and portion dreamer, a hunter with an excellent shot and a heart that won’t harden, The Dog Stars is definitely both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story in what it means to be human.