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I’m rarely a memoir person but it was very well written and learning new things about goshawks and th white was interesting.
My book club, which has trouble agreeing on just about anything, had near-unanimous reactions to this book: it is not something we would have chosen on our own, but we are all glad to have read it. It interweaves tales of the author grieving for her father while training a hawk and reflecting on the life of writer T.H. White. The result is a poetic reflection on mortality, nature, and the bit of wild hunter inside all of us.
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I loved reading this book. It was so raw and open much like an oozing wound. Losing oneself to grief and inhabiting a creature that represents the reality of death is what spoke to me but I was relieved that Helen came back to world and told the reader that the Hawk is an animal that brings brutal death to other animals. It is not human, it does what it is supposed to do. It’s a hawk.— Helen tells the reader that was the error. Both Helen and T.H. White-projected themselves onto the hawk. Helen was able to realize the error and it seems T. H. White did not/ would not/ could not?
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Not a huge fan of this book and I'm beginning to think that memoirs in general. There were some interesting parts for sure but the book never got into a flow for me. It's obviously full of detail on falconry and it seemed weird to me that she constantly compared her story to that of TH White.
The author has a very beautiful and descriptive writing style that has a tendency to drag the pacing a little. I found myself zoning out a few times (specifically during the TH White parts). Her perspective on grief and nature was poignant and deep
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H is for Hawk braids together the author's grief over the sudden death of her father, her foray into taming a goshawk and historical perspectives including "The Goshawk" by TH White. The propulsive and visceral account shares Macdonald's grapplings with a sport steeped in white supremacy, the ethical quandaries of modern falconry and her reconciliation of hawk and human worlds.
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