The tiger left, the elephant, the apes, the baboon, the cheetah. Brookies, rainbows, browns, cutthroats, cutbows, every one. If I ever woke up crying in the middle of a dream, and I’m not saying I did, it’s because the trout are gone every one. I used to love to fish for trout more than almost anything. I keep the Beast running, I keep the 100 low lead on tap, I foresee attacks. Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a hunter with a great shot and a heart that refuses to harden, The Dog Starsis both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story about what it means to be human. But what he encounters and what he must face-in the people he meets, and in himself-is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return-not enough fuel to get him home-following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life-something like his old life-exists beyond the airport.
In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be.
His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. The Dog Starsis a wholly compelling and deeply engaging debut." -Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss-and what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to perform some small kindness.
"Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation.
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