Macdonald’s emotional foundations are sundered and she is left longing for “that world already gone, was going for dinner with Christina. In the beginning of the memoir, Macdonald’s father passes away from a sudden accident.
H is for Hawk is a memoir which confronts themes of depression, obsession, and loneliness all of which Macdonald artfully highlights in her first scene describing the tumultuous “landscape come to love very much indeed.” This English landscape is reminiscent of all the grey-scape dreariness that postmodern authors like Thomas Pynchon evoked when describing industrialized Britain a land of “twisted pine trees, burned-out cars, shotgun-peppered road signs and US Air Force bases.” Macdonald’s self-proclaimed love of the desolate is explored throughout the memoir, with the motif of a lost and desolate world as a common thread.
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