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
Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Library Journal
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.