Product DescriptionOne of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
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 "eauty of being alive" (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.
Amazon.com ReviewAn Amazon Best Book of the Month for March 2015: When naturalist and falconer Helen Macdonald lost her beloved father?? she ??thought [her] world was ending.?? Seems apropos?? then?? that her journey from crippling grief to something resembling grace is on the wings of another deadly bird of prey--the notoriously prickly?? and murderous?? goshawk. In H Is for Hawk?? you will meet Mabel?? not your typical bloodthirsty specimen?? as she is trained to hunt like the goshawks of yore. It is this brash?? slightly mad u