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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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H is for Hawk braids together the author's grief over the sudden death of her father, her foray into taming a goshawk and historical perspectives including "The Goshawk" by TH White. The propulsive and visceral account shares Macdonald's grapplings with a sport steeped in white supremacy, the ethical quandaries of modern falconry and her reconciliation of hawk and human worlds.