Today I am reviewing the book The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The story focuses on Dinah from the bible. For those of you who are not familiar with the bible Dinah is the only daughter of Jacob son of Issac. She was born from the womb of Leah Jacob's first wife.
The Red Tent takes you on a journey with Dinah and helps you to broaden your thoughts on how life could have been for women (mainly) back in those days. I found the book to be extremely captivating as I could not put it down. Tiredness was closing my eyes but I still wanted to get to the next chapter.
The book made me think about how the other characters in the bible experienced life. We know what they did and how they accomplished what they did but as for how they felt in that time period, their concerns, their fears, their joys are not elaborated upon.
This fictional book takes Dinah's story and opens up a world of possibilities for how her life was and how it could have ended up. It also touches on other biblical characters and takes short deeper looks at their lives too.
What an interesting story and so cleverly put together. By the time you finish it you will want Mrs Diamant to expand on the possibilities of life for other biblical characters.
This is a very good read (please remember it's mostly fiction)
RECOMMENDED! ;)
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