The Dog Stars Audiobook (Free)

“Keep it to Peter Heller to assume a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it will devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his pet dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, running after all the same things we run after in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the opportunity to perform some small kindness. YOUR DOG Stars is normally a wholly convincing and deeply participating debut.” -Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have got Shifted

about YOUR DOG Stars

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

Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he has learned. His wife is fully gone, his friends are deceased, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his just neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter from the airfield or sneaks off towards the mountains to seafood and to pretend that issues are the way they utilized to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the tone of voice ignites a hope deep inside him a better life-something like his previous life-exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return-not more than enough fuel to obtain him home-following the path of the static-broken tone of 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 worse than anything he could possess hoped for.

Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a hunter with a great shot and a heart that won’t harden, YOUR DOG Stars is certainly both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story about what it means to become human.