offers us a diverting ride through the landscape of family relationships, Tibetan Buddhist practice, present and absent friends, food, music, art, sex, memories, aging, toe shoes, and toaster ovens—the ever-expanding whizbang that is our collective life at this impermanent moment, expressed with candor and affection.

Radner’s work has appeared in numerous literary and commercial magazines, anthologies and textbooks.

For over 20 years she reviewed books regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications.