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Book Review of The Red Tent

The Red Tent
2JsmomJCJK avatar reviewed One of the best I have read on + 27 more book reviews


This story which I read about 2 years ago deserves a re-read BUT I have loaned it out to every female I know and it is out there somewhere. Hopefully, they are enjoying it as much as I did. A fabulous story based on a female biblical character, Dinah the sister of Joseph and his eleven brothers. I devoured this book. I pulled out my Bible to check the referencing stories. While this is admittedly fictionalized - the story behind the story - it didn't matter. I turned the pages of this book so quickly and regretted that the end had to come. When it did, the beauty of the ending moved me to tears. I'm not an emotional person but this book did it to me. The tears were not sad tears. The ending was just so powerful and so beautiful and, for me, a bit unexpected. Any woman who wants to celebrate her woman-ness needs to read this.