Helen Macdonald Battles Grief with a Goshawk

Shattered by her father’s sudden death, writer Helen Macdonald began dreaming of wild hawks.  In an effort to move beyond her grief, she bought and trained a wild goshawk — one of the world’s fiercest birds of prey.   But between the bird and her grief, she became, in her words “more hawk than human.”

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