Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming

This book is an exploration of what the author considers to be magic. The term itself has parts of it that people may agree upon, and other aspects to “magic” that are particular to others. For author Maia Toll, magic is something that points to the wholeness of the human spirit — whether that be just within the human realm or beyond it. Her exploration of what magic means to her will take the reader through her story of personal empowerment, the search for connectedness and growth. Toll shares the events in her life that prompted her to leave Brooklyn, New York in fact of a smaller town upstate and eventually in Ireland to study herbalism. It’s her own personal story of pushing past the self-imposed barriers within the author’s assumptions about herself. Through her story, Toll hopes to give the reader a sense of the possibility to find one’s own path and discover what magic means for them and what that notion could bring into their lives.