Raising Hare
Stranded in the countryside by the pandemic, a foreign-policy adviser finds a newborn leveret and raises it without taming it. It comes and goes freely for two years.
A foreign-policy adviser, stranded in the English countryside by the pandemic, finds a newborn leveret in a lane and raises it without taming it. The hare comes and goes freely for two years, and Dalton writes about what it is to love something you refuse to own.
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Maria Popova
One winter day, walking through the placid English countryside while on pandemic-forced sabbatical from her roiling job as a foreign policy political advisor in London, Chloe Dalton stopped mid-stride at the sight of a small still creature haloed by the sunlight — a baby hare no bigger than her palm, right there in the middle of the path, about to change the course of her life, though she did not yet know it. In her moving memoir Raising Hare (public library), she recounts that catalytic encounter:
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