The EPWC book group met at Carolyn Stieber’s home to discuss the June selection of H is for Hawk! Most of us found the book hard to read and challenging to follow the thread of the author’s ideas. The author did have very thoughtful insights and written passages that made the book worthwhile. She moves through a neurotic period where she becomes one with the bird. In the end she is able to resume a more level life.
British author Helen MacDonald tells the story of her interest in hawks as a child and how she wanted to tame a hawk as a way of processing the grief she felt after the death of her father.
As a poet, writer and higher education educator she tells us about author T.H.White, who she models her hawk taming after.