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+158 "[the men] imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them"
185 "Their inattention was a revelation to me...I had supposed that my mothers could see my thoughts...I was separate, opaque, and drawn into an orbit of which they had no knowledge"
224 "Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test?"
318 Judah gives Dinah Rachel's ring from Leah, 'a sign that she died with an undivided heart, and wished the same for you"
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I have pretty mixed feelings about this book (maybe 2.5 stars, but I'll give 3...). It's supposed to give a voice to a biblical character (Dinah) that does not have a voice in the bible, so I assumed the book would also give Dinah agency. But it seemed like Dinah never made decisions in the book, and just did what other people decided for her. Sometimes the thing that other people decided for her was something she liked, but still. I felt that just generally she had no agency over her life, whic
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One of my all time favorite books that I love to revisit annually.
Jan 07, 2011
Olivia
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