cheemeego 's review for:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

5.0

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This memoir is rugged and raw and one of the most interestingly written thing I’ve read in a while. It observes the “archaeology of grief,” the wildness of nature touched and untouched by man, and the tragic life of a long dead writer who was abused and closeted—all in order to grapple with the sudden death of her father. Sometimes I had to force myself through it, sometimes I couldn’t put it down. Such a seamless blending of genres and concepts is what literature is all about.