Edgar: Book Club: “H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald

Join us for our June book club gathering as the group discusses “H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald.

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White’s tortured masterpiece, “The Goshawk,” which describes White’s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.

Everyone is welcome to join the discussion! Registration is not required. For more information call 715-352-3155.