“A work of stunning clarity and insight.”

No Prayer More Powerful is Kari Erickson’s debut memoir on the earth-shattering, cataclysmic, heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive act of claiming of herself as mother.

It is a story of transition, charting her arrival in a foreign land, her marriage and the births of her son and twin daughters, one of whom was tragically unwell. In taking us through her story of surprising self-abandonment, loss, confusion, anxiety and ultimately empowerment, she reflects on the true challenges of modern motherhood, the dance between fate and destiny, the grip of lineage and ancestry, the power of language and the magic of touch.

More than a touchingly honest and transcendently moving account of becoming a mother, this book more broadly illuminates the initiatory transitions into adult life. It is a deep, elegiac passage through the dark annals of maidenhood lost and motherhood found.