Book of the Week: The Red Tent by: Anita Diamant

Another book recommended to me by my mother. I tend to pounce on books suggested to me by family or friends and especially my mom.

This book is based on the only daughter of Jacob and Rachel. It is told from Dinah's perspective following her from childhood through adulthood. As her memories spill she spins a web of her complicated family life living as daughter with four mothers. She speaks of the cherished moments she experienced in the red tent with her mothers. The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing and menses, a place of refuge. This tent was an island of security a place to build a bond of supportive sisterhood. Through the conversations Dinah learned the importance of her mothers, their strengths, weaknesses, everything that made them the women she loved.

This was an incredible book. I felt empowered, glad to be a female. Grateful for the relationships I have with the important women in my life.