Phil Spevack asked Anita Diamant:

With Laban's family, the tree gives the Matriarch's mothers: Adah, Mer-Nefat, Huna, Tefnut, (Ruti?) (Kemuel)-(Ruti?) (Beor)-(Ruti?) In Parenthases, Ruti and two offsprings Kemel and Beor. 1 Are Laban's wives accurate, which would mean Leah and Rachel would be half-sisters? 2 Would Bilhah and Zilpah also be half-sisters and Laban's daughters? 3. Would Ruti here, be fiction?

Anita Diamant Hi Phil: The family tree is not based on biblical sources. Those relationships, and indeed some of the names, are my invention. Ruti is my invention.

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I want to tell you how much myself and my family have loved reading The Red Tent. I have read it several times and never tire of it! I started watching the series The Handmaids Tale and automatically knew what the ceremony was about because of reading your book!! Thank you for such an amazing literary gift! What are your thoughts on The Handmaids Tale, the book or the tv series?

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I've read "The Red Tent" and it really touched me! I loved the closeness of the women in the beginning of sitting in the red tent. As this is the first of your novels I have read, which novel would you recommend next for me to read?

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Were you involved in the making of the movie? If yes, to what level? Half way through the movie and really enjoying it but it makes me want to reread your book.

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I've read "The Red Tent" and it really touched me! I loved the closeness of the women in the beginning of sitting in the red tent. As this is the first of your novels I have read, which novel would you recommend next for me to read?

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