Like Ayn Rand in literature or Craig Ferguson in late night comedy, two of her idols, Romanian-born I like my to create my own rules: it's the immigrant experience.
Before my debut as a novelist, I was known as a quirky columnist and founder of Manhattan Chronicles, where I published provocative, witty essays about relationships shifts at the dawn of the 21st century.
But let's start with the beginning. I was born in Bucharest, where my father was an eccentric comedy playwright and my mother a charismatic French teacher. When I first first saw my Dad more...