jillpadams 's review for:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

4.0

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Memoir on grief and falconry. Many things I knew next to nothing about (outside watching The Eagle Huntress), including but not limited to training a goshawk, retrieving it from a tree when it’s fat and grumpy, how to play with a hawk, how to put an injured bunny out of its misery, the English “chalk cult” (which is something akin to “the Founding Fathers,” seems like), and various sundry other things about England, birds, and TH White. Writing is lovely and it’s a nice meandering dirge that becomes a mild major key by the end.