A review by ecologistnancydrew
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

5.0

Kind of like. Obsessed? That this lady suffered an immense grief and went "hey I think I'm gonna get a bird whose only mission in life is to kill things and also has claws that could tear my arm to shreds" like how baller is that??? The text took me a while to get through because it can get pretty dense, and the braiding-in of TH White's story was pretty unexpected but still interesting. I wish Macdonald had written a little more about the history and politics surrounding hawking but then again this is mostly a memoir about grief, not a treatise on the environment.