litbitch 's review for:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

4.0

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It's a book of extended comparisons more than metaphors - tracking her own hawking experience alongside an old book on a troubled man's ragged training dramas; comparing the world of the wild with the world of the human; comparing herself in pain to the world on its daily rotation. If you're not into analysis, you may not love all of it. I love analysis and I found it both dense and gorgeous. And it made England seem kind of exotic, which is cool, I guess.