Anita Diamant started writing as a freelance journalist in the Boston area in 1975, She wrote for local magazines and newspapers, including the Boston Globe and Boston Magazine. Her articles later appeared in Parenting, Parents, McCalls, and Ms.
Her early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado. She received a Bachelor degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and a Master's Degree in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She lives in the Boston area. She is married with one daughter.
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant.
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.
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Good Harbor: A Novel
by Anita Diamant.
Diamant's second novel focuses on Kathleen, a near-60-year-old librarian living in a small town in Massachusetts. After she's diagnosed with breast cancer, the treatments and stress begin to cloud her thinking, values, relationships, and her faith. Linda Emond depicts an intelligent woman on the verge of a major life change desperately attempting to keep it together. Her wandering thoughts on death, children, infidelity, and friendship emerge as real enough to touch anyone's compassion button
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