2016 Santa Fe literary awards - finalist2016 Next Generation Indie Book awards - finalist2016 USA Best Book Awards - finalist in the memoir category2016 Author Awards, 2nd place in the memoir categoryA SheKnows. com and Mind Body and Green Must-Read! Featured in Buzzfeed, Working Mother Magazine, The Reading Room, Brit and Co., Writer's Digest, Style, Huffington Post, Jewish Book Council, and Jewish Values Center. At age nineteen, Dorit Sasson, a dual American-Israeli citizen, was trying to make the status quo work as a college student-until she realized that if she didn't distance herself from her neurotic, worrywart of a mother, she would become just like her. Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces is Sasson's story of how she dropped out of college and volunteered for the Israel Defense Forces in an effort to change her life-and how, in stepping out of her comfort zone and into a war zone, she discovered courage and faith she didn't know she was capable of. | Accidental Soldier by Dorit Sasson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters