H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald • 2014
Devastation Rating
grief memoir nature loss
Our Take
Macdonald's father died and she responded by training a goshawk — the most difficult, violent raptor there is. The book braids grief, falconry, and T.H. White into something that should not work but devastates completely. Wildness as mourning. A hawk as substitute for everything lost.
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