Paula Dail
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A Native Californian, Paula Dail is an emerita research professor of social welfare and public policy and award-winning author. Widely published in the social sciences, she has also been recognized for her non-fiction and fiction writing, both under her own name and her pen name, Avery Michael. She is the recipient of first or second place Reader's Favorite, Reader's Choice, Independent Publisher, Bookfest and Literary Titan awards, a BookList starred review, and several other five-star reviews, including Goodreads, The Book Commentary, and Independent Book Review. Two of her books received the Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives with her husband and dog in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest. "Red Anemones", described by Kirkus as "poignant, disturbing, and historically and dramatically riveting," and receiving five stars from the Historical Novel Company, is her tenth book.
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Red Anemones
Red Anemone – Secrets My Mother Never Told chronicles Natalie Barlow’s journey of self-discovery that begins when her estranged mother’s sudden death releases a storm of unrevealed family secrets going back to pre-WWII Germany. As Natalie navigates the complexities of her newly discovered Jewish identity, she comes face-to-face with the early 20th-century German immigrant experience, the deep antisemitism and anti-German sentiment that prevailed across America, and the personal costs this ugly reality extracted from generations of her own family. Ultimately, Natalie must face the question “What happens when you discover you are not the person you’ve always thought you were?” and consider whether, like Israel’s red anemones that carpet the western Negev and Dvira Forest of the southern Judean foothills year after year, she has the courage, resiliency and passion to embrace the personal changes that bring new beginnings.
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