“Its not that there is nothing left. There is everything left that was before, minus a dog. Minus the noise, the clamor of.”

Fields Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope.

In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the Erie airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be.

“the improbable simplicity”

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.

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 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.

“I stood in the shade of the tree and let the sound, the light breeze blow through me. I was a shell.”

The Dog Stars is a story about what it means to be human….

…a story about loss and survival, set in Colorado.

Broomfield Mayor Patrick Quinn announces this year’s

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

Tour of Erie Airport Spirit of Flight Center Friday, October 4 at 7 pm Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library Eisenhower Room 2nd floor RSVP at 720-887-2350 or referencedesk@broomfield.org

Demystifying Human/Canine Relationships Thursday, October 10 at 7 pm Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library Eisenhower Room 2nd floor RSVP at 720-887-2350 or referencedesk@broomfield.org

Flyfishing in Colorado Thursday, October 24 at 7 pm Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library Eisenhower Room 2nd floor RSVP at 720-887-2350 or referencedesk@broomfield.org

Book discussion with Kerry Pettis “Book Woman” Wednesday October 30 at 7 pm Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library Eisenhower Room 2nd floor RSVP at 720-887-2350 or referencedesk@broomfield.org

One Book One Broomfield The Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library and the City and County of Broomfield Would like to thank the partners of One Book One Broomfield For their support

Mayor and Broomfield City Council Members Broomfield Library Board Broomfield Public Library Foundation Broomfield Library Friends

Broomfield Auditorium Cultural Affairs Broomfield Enterprise KCCB Channel 8

Online at broomfieldlibrary.org