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The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition by Anita Diamant

15 reviews

clairephillips's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Incest, and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

marija_m95's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

albyalbyalby's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

The Red Tent is a beautiful read for anyone looking to be crushed but also uplifted. Despite not being a woman, I have learnt so much about womanhood from this book. Specifically,  I now have a deeper understanding of how their stories have been oppressed throughout history. 
I hope one day to feel the contentment she found.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Death of parent

kathrun006's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This book feels very slice of life. I like that because it's a culture very different from my own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Stalking

thedreammachine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Suicide

halfling_stories's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I really enjoyed this book! It was a complex, rambling read. The sheer amount of characters and names was slightly overwhelming, but I loved the narration and pacing. The writing was really good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

There's a fair amount of violence in this book. There are also many, many depictions of childbirth, stillbirth, and maternal mortality. Some are graphic/explicit, some are not.

lucymight's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Beautiful book, viscerally written, learned a lot. I would recommend, although parts of her story felt a little hurried. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Murder

p_ttyb_tch's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Abortion

Minor: Incest and Misogyny

phantomgecko's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

On one hand, it's a fascinating retelling of parts of Genesis.

On the other hand, I greatly disagree with some of the characterization/explanations/actions. It really felt like the author just wanted to take biblical people and smear them as much as possible because she can. "Look, your biblical figures were horrible people with no actual redeeming qualities." The female characters were lifted onto pedestals at the expense of the morality of the men.

idk, I think depicting Rebekah as a pagan priestess  bothered me the most. My girl Rebekah was a righteous, chosen woman. It does her so dirty to have her act cruelly with family and despise her husband while she runs the moon temple. It's not empowering or feminist. It sucks. Obviously she wasn't a perfect person, but when you're righting a novel exploring characters, why would you choose to make her wicked?

Again, there were some really cool parts of this novel. Some perspectives were great, the relationship between Jacob's wives was actually delightful. But a lot of the book felt spiteful.

Reading statements from the author makes me feel better about things. Still not my favorite book tho.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

smallredboy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

It's a beautifully written book; some parts were a bit of a lull and I didn't find myself liking them, mostly the sudden end to Dinah and Shelem's romance, but afterward the book took shape again and I found it really enjoyable. As much as I'm only woman-adjacent nowadays, the depictions of womanhood and mother-daughter relationships were really tender and I loved them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Pedophilia