In her foreword, Robin Roberts writes that when Scott joined ESPN in 1993, "Our cool factor went off the charts with Stu roaming the halls." Indeed, Scott was, in another phrase he coined, "cool as the other side of the pillow," but his coolness came not so much from his hip-hop persona as from his life as a father and friend. His story is so good, it will "make you want to sop it up with a biscuit" (a famous Scott phrase). Yet, as Scott explained in his memoir, Every Day I Fight (Blue Rider Press), he didn't lose-he beat cancer by how and why he lived. H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.When sports broadcaster Stuart Scott died in January, tributes were legion, with people choking up on camera ("he made us better people"), grieving, bewildered that such a vital man who had battled- attacked-cancer for five years had lost.
Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human "discover the pain and beauty of being alive" ( People). 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. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20) ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
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