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H is for Hawk: Finding meaning in grief

The book itself is a search for meaning—meaning in loss, meaning in wildness—meanings that she, in a thought-provoking inversion, rejects at the end, revealing them for what they are: a desire to merge the self with the natural world and superimpose ourselves upon it.

Posted byZehra NaqviJune 22, 2020Posted inColumns in PrintTags:Book Review, Death, Death of father, H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald1 Comment on H is for Hawk: Finding meaning in grief

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