#59 - read a non chick lit book!

Some of my favorite Austin girls started a book club. This is great because it's getting me to read more and making me read books I wouldn't have thought to pick. Tonight we have a book club meeting on this book - which I finished the other night. It was pretty good. I was worried it was going to be too much of a time piece book (which I don't normally like) but it did a good job of feeling modern while staying true to the biblical times (except the part where she talks about guys that hump the sheep! eek!).


Synopsis from Amazon.com:
The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery.