The Drum

Anita Diamant is the author of eleven books. Her first novel, The Red Tent, published in 1997, won the 2001 Booksense Book of the Year Award. A word-of-mouth bestseller in the US, it has been published in more than 25 countries. Her other novels include Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown, and most recently Day After Night, which is set in 1945 in Palestine and tells the story of four young Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Diamant has written six non-fiction guides to contemporary Jewish life, including The New Jewish Wedding and How to Raise a Jewish Child. An award-winning journalist, her articles have appeared in many publications including The Boston Globe and Parenting Magazine.

An excerpt from Day After Night appears in the June 2012 issue of The Drum.