Historical fiction novels are a wonderful blending that allows us to learn about historical events in the embrace of a story.

The growing culture of Red Tents were inspired by Anita Diamant's 1997 novel, "The Red Tent" — a fictional story of Dinah, daughter of Jacob in the Old Testament.

Diamant read excerpts from both The Red Tent and her newer novel Good Harbor, a novel about contemporary Jewish women. The novels are different, Diamant said, but are connected through their stories ...

Anita Diamant had written about periods before — the title of her beloved novel, “ The Red Tent,” referred to the place where women were sequestered by a society that demanded their removal ...

Throughout, Diamant — the author behind such novels as “The Red Tent” and “The Boston Girl” — draws on historical examples that are at once horrifying and ridiculous.