The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

The Dog Stars

by Peter Heller

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.
 
But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.

Reviewed by lisacee on

4 of 5 stars

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A different sort of post-apocalyptic book, where people are very few and nature is in power. Beautifully written, told through Hig's slightly addled mind, this book made me want to get away from it all. Go live off the grid and from the earth.

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