Dream in a Suitcase

Dream in a Suitcase unravels a fast-paced journey of survival, resilience, and the transformative power of love. It is the first English-language memoir by a female Romanian American survivor of one of the most brutal communist dictatorships behind the Iron Curtain.

The narrative offers a rich multicultural mosaic of a life divided not only between two cultures and languages-the heroine's native Romania and her adoptive United States-but also between Chicago's urban landscape and a small Virginia town marked by a heavy Confederate legacy. Deeply relevant to our times, this book invites American-born readers to gain a more nuanced understanding of those who arrived as refugees in search of freedom, peace, and their own versions of the American Dream.

First published in 2021, this autobiography has now been reissued and expanded, featuring a new foreword by writer Michèle Sarde.