lbjo 's review for:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

5.0

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macdonald's prose is incredible, and her attention to and rendering of the details of her time with mabel are astonishing. this is a book that makes you want to pay attention, and that makes you feel along with it. macdonald's renderings of grief are similarly sharp— they plunge you into something deep and sad that is difficult to put into words. i was impressed also with macdonald's interrogation of human relationships to wildness, and the way she challenged the vast history of falconry in her remarkable attention to interspecies relationships.