Anita Diamant
Author
Series
Book Club Express volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for "illegal" immigrants, run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast north of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp who survived the Holocaust with profoundly different stories, who come to find salvation in the bonds of friendship. (Bestseller)...
3) The red tent
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
Description
Diamant shifts the focus and lets Dinah speak directly of her family and her life. The red tent is where women go to celebrate the cycles of fertility, childbirth, and life. Each ritual provides strength and context for the women who belong to Jacob's extended family. As Dinah learns the midwife's art, marries, and travels to a foreign land, she shares her observations and feelings in a voice that is absolutely authentic.