For those interested in the famous 'Red Tents', these groups of women who meet and share their knowledge about femininity, motherhood, this book is a great introduction. We follow the lives of a dozen wives of Jacob (Jacob's Israelite history, the grand-son of Abraham), who trust, bind or tear in the red tent, the tent in which women gather a few days around the new moon during menstruation. I like this story feel solidarity between these women and their sufferings and their joys, from all these events that punctuate the life of a woman sexuality, maternity, bereavement, love, friendship ...
