H is for Hawk

A very personal memoir, the author deals with the loss of her father by escaping the world with the solitary experience of training a goshawk. She dedicates all her time to the hawk, a being driven by the urge to kill and eat and sleep, and finds solace in the bond that forms between them.

This feels as if Rebecca Solnit had written Walden. It's all about nature and the wild, written with beautiful language, a narrative that intermingles present and past, thoughts and stories.