Blessings of Failure

Blessings of Failure is a memoir of a Transylvanian physician, a child of communism where failure was guaranteed. While her father languishes in Romania’s Gulag and her mother lives under secret police surveillance, the ten-year-old, politically-marked daughter of the Christian pastor is hidden and protected by her Jewish violin teacher. In a stubborn pursuit of realizing her parents' failed ideals, she keeps changing careers and countries. She excels in three professions, only to lose each as her inner quest drives her toward an ever-changing vision of becoming. All her striving comes to fruition in service to the very culture from which she fled. Paradoxically, her freedoms and successes have come from failures.