Tales & Talk Morning Group: H Is for Hawk

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Johnson City Public Library
Board Room

Event Details

Tales & Talk is a book discussion group sponsored by the Johnson City Public Library. Membership is open to all adults who can commit to attending regular discussion meetings. The group meets 6 times a year on the 2nd or 3rd Thursday of September, October, November, March, April and May. One of the groups meets in the morning and the other in the evening. Both groups will read the same book. The books to be discussed will be available to group members to borrow or to purchase. For more information call (423)434-4454, send an e-mail to phoneroom or inquire at the Information Desk on the 2nd floor of the library.

Summary of H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald:

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. H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk, but in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T.H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her challenging endeavor. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity and changed her life.


Event Type(s): Book Discussion
Age Group(s): Adults