In a world where "women's friendships are unspoken and undervalued," as Diamant says, her novel came as a gift to women, and women returned the favor.
Like Diamant, who rented a cottage on Cape Ann while she wrote, Kathleen loves Good Harbor, a stretch of beach outside the town with its "straight line between the sea and the sky.
Diamant's portrayal of Kathleen's bravery, her terror and the awful, debilitating routine of radiation treatment comes not from first-hand experience, but as the result of research and a novelist's capacity to plumb the human heart.
Anita Diamant was born in New York to parents who survived the Holocaust, and she grew up in Newark, NJ and Denver, CO. Since 1975, Diamant has lived in the Boston area, where she is well known for her regular work in The Boston Globe and other local media.
Diamant's first novel, The Red Tent, was published by St. Martin's Press in 1997; her second novel, Good Harbor, was published by Scribner in 2001.
Anita Diamant's lecture is the first of three talks in a series called "Women of Spirit," presented by the 92nd Street Y Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, that features women who have led the return - on different pathways - to Judaism's moral and spiritual teachings.
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