I loved The Red Tent by Anita Diamant so I was excited to see her new book at the library. It would also fall into the historical fiction category. But it in no way caught my heart the way The Red Tent did. Day After Night focuses on four female refuges after WWII. They all had very different circumstances and ended up at Atlit, a British internment camp in Palestine. The women were waiting to be relocated to kibbutz. The women grow frustrated with the long wait in the camp and compare it to the concentration camps that they so narrowly avoided or were captive in.
The four women become leaders in their own way, among the people in the camp. Some of the women dream of finding husbands and having children…a dream they did not ever think would be realized during the war when they were in hiding or in concentration camps. Some women grieve for the family and friends that they lost. And some rage against the twists that life has thrown at them.
The characters are well developed and their stories intertwine well. The book is filled with something that is almost like hope as the characters try to figure out how to start their lives over again. However I did not feel the draw to this book as I did her previous novel. It was definitely readable but will not make my “top” list.
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