Tells the story of Dinah, daughter of the Biblical Leah and Jacob and sister of Joseph. Dinah is mentioned only briefly in the Bible, but Diamant expands the story to tell of her whole lifetime. (The title itself refers to the tent where women would go during menstruation and during and after childbirth.)
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
