One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON
MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1
Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books),
Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago
Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami
Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10),
Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate,
Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) The instant New York
Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's
story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious
predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers
worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament
mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and
together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being
alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of
our most unique and transcendent voices.
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Memoir with a difference
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 | Review
by: Marion York R.
Helen Macdonald had always loved birds and was fascinated with falconry. After her father's death, she grieved immensely and decided to isolate herself while training a hawk, Mabel.
A beautiful memory ofhealing through a goshawk.
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