The Red Tent - Book Review
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
"The Red Tent" is a compelling story about the otherwise untold life of a woman from the Bible. Diamant tells the story of Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob from the Book of Genesis. In the Bible, Dinah gets only a passing glimpse, but in this novel, Dinah tells her story and the story of her mothers and the other women in her life. Much of the novel, especially initially, takes place in the setting of the red tent. The red tent is the place where women go during menstruation and childbirth it is a place men of the time period have no access to. Dinah's life takes many unforseen twists and turns as she grows older, but is always in the context of the stories she learned growing up with her mothers as in the context of her profession as a midwife.
Diamant takes a bold step in telling the untold story from the point of view of a woman during the time period before Christ. We see women's feelings, women's responsibilities and women's secret......
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