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The Red Tent
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The Red Tent retells the story of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, from the perspective of the women around her. The novel follows Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah through marriage, motherhood, rivalry and household ritual, making the women’s tent a centre of memory, birth and female community. Dinah’s own life moves from Jacob’s household into the violence at Shechem and then beyond it, as the book reimagines a brief biblical episode as a wider story of family, loss, survival and women’s experience in the ancient Near East.