Yuck! Who could possibly read this book based on biblical characters with such immoral themes! I got this book out of my house as quick as possible!

I learned that this is somewhat a true story. I did not realize that a lot if what is in the book is in the Bible. I did not really like it because it portrayed Joseph of the Coat of many colors as not such a good man.

Dear sweet lord if ever there was a book written by a woman FOR women, this is it. I only picked it up because my wife had been raving about it and our oldest daughter had also enjoyed it. Never again. Chicks only.

one of my favorites!

A fascinating read, but ultimately seemed more fantasy than real possibility. Appeals to feminine fantasy of a time that was idyllic, which never was.

Ok, so everyone loved it and I hated the first 100 pages. I finally threw in the towel after the sentence " her breasts ached to give suck". Painful narrative for me.

This book gave me some insight as to what life was like in Biblical times. It would fall into the category of feminist writing. It is bewitching, you won't be able to put it down. I was hungry for more at the end and it continues to haunt me.

This book was the first book club reading for a book club that I never joined. A few years later, I went back and read it for fun. It was a very interesting read. A little disturbing and awe inspiring at the same time. It was one of those books that made me sit back and think about how lucky we are to have been born in modern times.

I absolutely loved this book.
Some favorite quote:"But when she held them in her arms, she tasted only the joy of mothers,the sweetest tears."

"While I slept in my mother's womb, I appeared to her and to each of my aunties in vivid dreams."

"The birth of a daughter...The birth of a birth giver."

"There were always arms to hold you, cuddle you, embrace you."

"So you are Dinah, my last-born. My daughter. My memory."

"Remember this moment, when your mother's body heals every trouble of your soul."

"Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? But of course there is no way to tell this or to hear it."

One of my favorite books. Women rock.

I really enjoyed this book. I had to keep in mind as I read it that it is fictional and not history. She definitely takes some liberties that aren't biblical so to speak, but it is a well written and interesting and fiction.

I really enjoyed Anita's view of the trials and life of our foremothers during biblical times. I feel that I don't get enough of a womans view from the scriptures and this book really helps understand what they might have went through. Although some parts were a bit graphic.