Memoir
Nature
2006
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Published in Spanish as H de halcón
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).
What it is
Learning to live after a loss · one to read slowly
What happens in it
Living with grief
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Form
- Memoir
- Who tells it
- First person
- Style
- Literary
- Prose
- Lyrical
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you want a book that understands loss
- you like a book that stays with you for days
- you like a book that makes you think
Maybe not if…
- you'd rather skip the hard scenes
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