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Red Anemones
By Paula Dáil
By Paula Dáil
Publication Date: 17th October 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Page Length: 446
Genre: Historical Biographical Fiction
Moving among generations of a German-Jewish-American family, "Red Anemones" is a poignant exploration of the intricate bonds, untold secrets, and unspoken legacies our ancestors bestow upon us.
Natalie Barlow's journey of self-discovery begins when her estranged mother's sudden death releases a storm of unrevealed family secrets reaching back to pre-WWI Germany.
As Natalie navigates the complexities of her newly discovered Jewish identity and her ancestral heritage, she comes face-to-face with the early 20th-century German immigrant experience, which included strong anti-German sentiment and deep antisemitism that prevailed across America.
Through diaries and letters her mother saved, Natalie learns of the personal costs this ugly reality extracted from generations of her own family. Ultimately, she must confront the question of her own identity.
Like Israel's red anemones carpeting the western Negev and Dvira Forest of the Judean foothills year after year, Natalie is determined, no matter the personal costs, to find the courage, resiliency, and passion to embrace the changes that bring new beginnings. Inspired by a true story.
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Red Anemones
Paula Dáil
Paula's first publication was a Letter to the Editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper written when she was seven years old. In it she pleaded to spend the newspaper's annual Christmas fund donations to purchase shoes for the impoverished children of Hispanic migrant workers in California's Central Valley. On the Sunday before Christmas, the letter appeared on the newspaper's front page.
Later, after earning a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and entering into a career as an academic research professor of social welfare and public policy, she became widely published in the social sciences. She has received several awards for her feminist-oriented research, graduate teaching, and non-fiction writing. Her books have won two international book awards, an Independent Publishers Book Award, a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, a coveted Booklist Starred Review, and twice been named the Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Her Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds on contemporary social and political issues are published in various outlets and newspapers around the country. All of these are social justice-driven efforts inspired by Tikkun Olam - repairing the broken world we find ourselves living in.
A native Californian, she spent several years in a Catholic girls' boarding school but has not been an observant Catholic for most of her adult life. Ultimately, she abandoned Catholicism in favor of a spiritual and actual journey leading her closer to her deeper Jewish roots, which she reverently embraces. She belongs to B'nai Jeshurun Synagogue in New York City and currently resides in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest with her award-winning writer husband, their dog, and various other wildlife. Across her career, she has authored ten books, so far.
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