Anita Diamant

The author of The Red Tent is back with a powerful new novel--available just before our event in paperback--about four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, who find friendship, love, and salvation in a postwar British camp in Palestine. Day After Night was named a "best book of the year" by the Washington ... (more)Post and The Salt Lake Tribune.

6pm doors open. 7pm lecture. Admission: $5 members. $10 nonmembers. The bestselling author of Good Harbor and The Last Days of Dogtown returns to the geography of The Red Tent and re-imagines a true event in the aftermath of World War II in an intensely dramatic, profoundly sad new ... (more)novel. Atlit is a holding camp for “illegal” immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Anita Diamant is a prizewinning journalist whose work has appeared regularly in The Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting magazine. She is the author of six books about contemporary Jewish practice, one collection of autobiographical essays and three prior novels including The Red Tent, national bestseller and Book Sense Book of the Year.

Join us as we discuss The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. For more information or to reserve a copy please call the library 312-747-6082.

This month the Hussies will be discussing "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamont.
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