Julie C. (writergal) reviewed on 4/6/2010 + 14 more book reviews

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The Red Tent is a compelling story of Dinah. Her life, her love and the failure of her family and father. It is an amazing tale of life in the Red Tent, where women go during their monthly time of the month. The talk, the secrets and the love that happens as these women love each other. It is a story that goes deeper and explains how Rachel took her father's household God's, what they meant to her and to her sisters in the Red Tent. And most of all the story behind the story of Dinah. When you read the BIBLE, the story of Dinah it is told as though it were the rape of Dinah. In this context it was not a rape. Dinah loved her "groom" was deeply loved by him and wished nothing more than to be united in marriage. Instead her brothers and father promised this to happen and then Dinah awoke in the morning to her husband's dead body. The book chronicles her life before and after and also tells you more of Leah, Dinah's mother. How Leah was actually very, very smart and beloved by her husband Jacob, something that you don't often get or even think about when you read the bible.

I thought this was an excellent book and enjoyed the historic detail and the story of Dinah as told through her voice. Very well done.

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