We Count it All Joy

<p>In this introspective collection of personal essays award-winning poet and essayist Rachel Toalson provides an intimate and essential portrait of what it means to be human. With essays like “On Family Trees that Look More Like Stumps” “On Childhood Depression” “On Loss and God” and “On Wishing for a Different Life” Rachel uncovers her heart her soul and her honest feelings and philosophies.</p><p><em>We Count it All Joy</em> is a singular collection of essays that takes one woman’s personal experience and wraps it inside a collective experience so that readers connect marvel and feel the thread of humanity that joins us all. Exploring topics like anxiety and depression marriage loss and modern femininity Rachel guides her readers to the end of the world so that they too have a chance to say <em>we count it all joy.</em></p>