kim_e_d 's review for:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

5.0

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The base plot is very simple, but the execution is extraordinary. This is an autobiography about grief, a reading of White's The Goshawk, a critical reading of many other books about hawking, a history of hawking, a history of England's fauna, a scathing sociological analysis, and so much more. It is so different from everything else I would know how to qualify it.