Colleen Mondor presents her book 'The Map of My Dead Pilots,' April 4

Wednesday, April 4, 5-7 p.m.
UAA Campus Bookstore

From the author, Colleen Mondor:

"I learned to fly at age eighteen and have degrees in aviation, history and northern studies. The Map of My Dead Pilots is based on my experiences as lead dispatcher at a Part 135 (commercial) air carrier based in Fairbank. The 'Company' had bases in multiple bush locations and flew single-engine, multi-engine and twin turbine aircraft carrying everything from scheduled passengers and mail to convicts and sled dogs. There were incidents and accidents, moments of Pythonesque absurdity and brain-numbing hard work. It was never the profession I learned about in the classroom nor the glory stories so popular in modern myth...It is the story of the people who worked at one Alaskan commuter and the culmination of my efforts to understand how commercial pilots live and die in the Last Frontier."

"Strap yourselves in. The Map of My Dead Pilots is one hell of a ride, one of the best Alaska books ever. In gorgeous, literary prose that nails the rhythms of a barroom conversation and plumbs the depth of the human soul, Colleen Mondor writes a one-way ticket into the world of Alaska aviation." --Nick Jans, author of The Last Light Breaking and The Grizzly Maze

What can be added? Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet Colleen Mondor.

For more information, see the bookstore website or contact Rachel Epstein at (907) 786-4782 or anre@uaa.alaska.edu. There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, just across from the bookstore.