# Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood - Hardcover

by **Various** (Author)

**A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.**

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'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow' MAYA ANGELOU

The story of motherhood is an endlessly rich one: it's one of love - and all the highs and lows that come with that world-turning emotion - and, in the purest sense, of life itself. Within these pages, some of the finest writers in the world explore motherhood in wildly varying modes, from single parenthood to sisters coparenting, from the deepest hardships to the biggest celebrations.

Selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite, author of _I Am Not Your Baby Mother_.

**Stories by** Lydia Davis, Anita Desai, Mary Gaitskill, Tessa Hadley, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Irenosen Okojie, Casey Plett, Tabitha Siklos, Helen Simpson, Ali Smith

### Author Biography

Candice Brathwaite is the _Sunday Times_ bestselling author of _I Am Not Your Baby Mother_. She is a contributing editor at _Grazia_ and a presenter on _Lorraine_, and her writing has appeared in the _Guardian_, _Harper's Bazaar_, _Stylist_, _Metro_ and _Huffington Post_. She is also the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse - an online initiative that aims to ensure many more mothers see themselves reflected online - and a hugely popular influencer.

Candice Brathwaite is the _Sunday Times_ bestselling author of _I Am Not Your Baby Mother_. She is a contributing editor at _Grazia_ and a presenter on _Lorraine_, and her writing has appeared in the _Guardian_, _Harper's Bazaar_, _Stylist_, _Metro_ and _Huffington Post_. She is also the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse - an online initiative that aims to ensure many more mothers see themselves reflected online - and a hugely popular influencer.

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including _The Bluest Eye_, _Sula_, _Beloved_, _Paradise_ and _Love_. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

**Tessa Hadley** is the author of eight highly praised novels, _Accidents in the Home_, which was longlisted for the _Guardian_ First Book Award, _Everything Will Be All Right_, _The Master Bedroom_, _The London_ _Train,_ _Clever Girl_, _The Past_, _Late in the Day, Free Love_ and three collections of stories, _Sunstroke_, _Married Love_ and _Bad Dreams_. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, _The Past_ won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and _Bad Dreams_ won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the _New_ _Yorker_.

**Helen Simpson's** sixth short-story collection, _Cockfosters_, follows _Four Bare Legs in a Bed_ (1990), _Dear George_ (1995), _Hey Yeah Right Get a Life_ (2000), _Constitutional_ (2005) and _In-Flight Entertainment_ (2010). _A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories_ (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 7.8 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** February 06, 2024

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