Short stories of engaging originality mingle with reports of travel to far kingdoms or hell and back, along with humourously poignant accounts from the author's career as a physician.  Feminist, humanist and Jewish themes inform the collection, but it is the childlike voice of wonder at a world both tragic and magical that touches the reader.  Laugh-out-loud funny in some places and raw or tender in others.  This book deals with the large and small dramas of human existence.