Can Ms. Diamant write well? Absolutely! Is the story compelling? Yes. But given that she has written a half dozen books on Jewish life I was expecting a story about the richness of Jewish history--something that would be fitting of the patriarchs and their women. I realize that they were far from perfect, but nonetheless, they grasped their faith well enough to hand it down the generations to reach to the twenty first century. Yes, Jacob's wives worshiped the Mesopotamian gods of the time, but I think that he had to have explained his own developing faith in his God to his wives and children, and that didn't come through in this story. Furthermore, I expected that Diamant would describe what to me is the crux of Dinah's life story; the struggle children have with adopting their parent's faith versus finding their own faith. She missed out by not elaborating this timeless dilemma--thus creating an interesting, but rather superficial story.