Blessings of Failure: A Transylvanian Memoir

Blessings of Failure is a memoir of a physician – a child of communism where failure was guaranteed. She receives the Romanian secret police files about her father, code-named “The Prophet.” Stunning revelations by these documents reframe the daughter’s self-understanding.
The story moves from witnessing her parents’ tortured lives and failed ideals, to realizing their dreams in her own quest. While her father languishes in Romania’s Gulag and her mother lives under secret police harassment,...