The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (Paperback)

Nine years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the population, Hig lives at an abandoned airfield in Colorado with his dog, Jasper, and a gruff, heavily armed neighbor named Bangley. Hig flies his old Cessna over the empty landscape, fishes in the mountains and grieves for everything he has lost.

When a faint radio transmission crackles through his plane's radio, he risks everything to find its source. Peter Heller's debut novel is lyrical, tense and surprisingly tender, a story about survival, friendship and the hope that something good still exists in a broken world.