DAY AFTER NIGHT

I know that I am probably the last person in the world to read Day After Night.  That being said, I am now sharing the shame of that fact and telling you to buy this on your kindle, on Amazon, get it at the library.  

As enthralling as The Red Tent was, Anita Diamant's lastest book will carry you away again to a different period of history.  I was a little reluctant because I really did not like her "Last Days of Dogtown" book at all, but this is remarkable.  Just a few pages into Day After Night and you feel as though you can smell the ocean, and feel the lumps in the pillow. 

Here is a review:

Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters -- young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe -- in this intensely dramatic novel.

Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for "illegal" immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp with profoundly different stories. All of them survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi, and Zorah find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country.

This is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption, a novel that reimagines a moment in history with such stunning eloquence that we are haunted and moved by every devastating detail. Day After Night is a triumphant work of fiction. 

Read and enjoy!!