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H Is for Hawk

by Helen MacDonald

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Grief, a goshawk, and the natural world

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Awards & Recognition

  • Bestseller

    Instant New York Times bestseller

    Described in the publisher-supplied metadata as an instant New York Times bestseller.

  • Editorial selection

    A New York Times 100 Best Book of the 21st Century

    Included among the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

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Grief, a goshawk, and the natural world

Helen Macdonald’s account brings together the work of raising Mabel, a goshawk, and the experience of grieving her father. The bird’s fierce temperament becomes part of the book’s exploration of how human loss meets the demands and strangeness of another animal’s life. Its subject sits at the intersection of memoir and nature writing, with the relationship between falconer and raptor giving shape to reflections on grief, wildness, and being alive.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs about bereavement and its aftermath
  • Those drawn to nonfiction about birds, animal behavior, and human-animal relationships
  • Readers seeking nature writing combined with personal reflection

Themes

Grief and lossGoshawks and the natural worldHuman-animal relationshipsWildness and the experience of being alive

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Book overview

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Books of the 21st Century
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years
ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20)

The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

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