The blue of her body

"When her lover, Kate, leaves her, the protagonist of The Blue of Her Body falls into a depression she begins to treat chemically. At the same time, she decides to further develop her interest in learning how to handle birds of prey - hawk, kestrel, owl, eagle. Beauty, wildness, and danger are intertwined for a woman whose desire is nonetheless identifiably human: All my life I have wanted my hands on a living thing. Ultimately, building powerful and poetic scene upon scene, the novel creates a portrait of the human heart and its untamable nature, and the wonders of the activity of imagination we call love."--Jacket.