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2016 Santa Fe literary awards – finalist
2016 Next Generation Indie Book awards – finalist in military
2016 USA Best Book Awards – finalist in the memoir category
A 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.
“A courageous and touching story of the female immigrant experience in the Israel Defense Forces that many readers will sympathize with.”
—Danny Ayalon, Former Ambassador to the US and Deputy Foreign Minister, State of Israel
“Accidental Soldier traces Dorit Sasson’s life as she moved from New York City to Israel in her teenage years. Her writing reflects multiple emotions as her life took many turns as a volunteer and soldier. This is clearly a labor of love.”
—Cindy Chazan, Vice-President, The Wexner Foundation
“If you are a young Jewish woman in New York trying to find yourself, what do you do? Like Private Benjamin, Dorit Sasson joins the army—but in Israel. She finds herself in a strange land that both scares her and beckons to her heart. Join Dorit on a heroine’s journey where she learns how to find courage, strength, and her True Self.”
—Linda Joy Myers, President of the National Association of Memoir Writers, and author Don’t Call Me Mother: A Daughter’s Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness
“Accidental Soldier delivers a unique window into Sasson’s service as a woman in the IDF.”
—Jewish Values Center
“This poignant memoir reminds us that women truly do run the world.”
—SheKnows
“From discovering who she is as a woman to learning to survive solely on courage and human faith, her memoir illuminates that her incredibly risky life change led to more than a battlefield.”
—Brit + Co, “16 Books Every Millennial Should Read”
“If you’re looking for a riveting memoir that celebrates female empowerment and inspires you to reinvent yourself, you must read this real-life, coming-of-age story.”
―Working Mother Magazine, “20 Great Books for Your Working Mom Summer Reading List”
“{Sasson’s] beautiful writing style takes the reader into a new and insightful world―a world of sacrifices, courage, obstacles, comfort zones, doubts, self-awareness, decisions, spiritual gains and transformations…Yes, I can state for now…Dorit Sasson fed my soul with her Accidental Soldier.”
—Writer’s Pay It Forward
“Accidental Soldier is deliciously psychological in other ways, too. It digs deep into the dysfunctional relationship with her mother. And the book provides a wonderful example of how fretful thoughts add to a suspenseful story.”
—Jerry Waxler, MemoryWritersNetwork
