The red tent / Anita Diamant

About “The red tent / Anita Diamant”

The Red Tent is a historical novel by Anita Diamant, published in 1997 by Wyatt Books for St. Martin's Press. It is written as a first-person narrative from the perspective of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the sister of Joseph. Dinah is a minor character in the Hebrew Bible, and Diamant expands her story. The novel's title refers to a tent where women of Jacob’s tribe must go during menstruation or after childbirth, according to the Jewish practice of niddah. This space serves as a place of support and connection among women. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)