“Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how.”

MacdonaldSimultaneously a “breathtaking memoir” and a “small instant classic of nature writing,” this book juggles multiple themes and techniques. One often-used technique is metaphor: we meet a fellow who is as “serene as a mid-ocean wave” and see the deer “ankle their way out of the … Read More