Pitching My Tent - by Anita Diamant (Paperback)

About the Book

Following the success of "The Red Tent" and "Good Harbor," BookSense Book-of-the-Year award winner Diamant delivers an intimate reflection on the milestones, revelations, and balancing acts of life as a wife, mother, and member of a religious community.

Book Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The Red Tent and Good Harbor, a collection of intimate, autobiographical reflections on the milestones, revelations, and balancing acts of life as a wife, mother, friend, and member of a religious community.

Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim, Anita Diamant was a columnist in Boston. Over the course of twenty years, she wrote essays that reflected the shape and evolution of her life, as well as the trends of her generation. In the end, her musings about love and marriage, birth and death, nature versus nurture, politics and religion--and everything from female friendships to quitting smoking--have created a public diary of the progress of her life that resonated deeply with her readers. Now, Pitching My Tent collects the finest columns of a writer who is a reporter by training and a storyteller by heart, all revised and enriched with new material. Personal, inspiring, and often funny, Pitching My Tent displays the warmth, humor, and wisdom that Diamant's legions of fans have come to cherish.

Review Quotes

"Celebrates the mystery, complexity, and power of faith." -- Book magazine

"Diamant's graceful prose is down-to-earth and true." -- The Boston Globe

"Readers will find much to identify with....[Diamant's] pieces are laced with an insider's irony, as well as insight and poignancy." -- Jewish Woman

About the Author

Anita Diamant is the bestselling author of the novels The Boston Girl, The Red Tent, Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown, and Day After Night, and the collection of essays, Pitching My Tent. An award-winning journalist whose work appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting, and many others, she is the author of six nonfiction guides to contemporary Jewish life. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her website at AnitaDiamant.com.