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Title: Trashes Jewish history for New Agery and a Joseph rip-off
Review: Diamant actually had me until she started cribbing way too much from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for this re-imagining of the Biblical rape of Dinah in the Book of Genesis. She ravages Jewish history in order to play on the cuddly notion that menstruation (I'm sorry, "our moon time") is a spiritual event that binds all women together - making Diamant a perennial book club favorite among women to whom I do not wish to be bound (shared biological functions notwithstanding). It doesn't help that Diamant keeps forgetting Dinah is telling her story in the first person, which she continues to do even when Dinah is not, technically, in the scene. The fourth wall breaks most painfully when Dinah describes her own death.
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