Mary Dorsan, When the Son Goes to War
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Novelist Mary Dorsan compares her son's enlistment in the army to an earthquake. Helene Bamberger / opale.photo
At 22, he decided to join the army. A decision that was a shock to Mary Dorsan. A novelist, she wrote to her son in a moving book that offers an inside look at the life of a young recruit.
Father, mother, and son. Summer 2022, the three of them are on the Esplanade de la Défense in Paris. The 22-year-old son is going to pick up his train ticket from the army recruitment center. A one-way ticket, a sign of a commitment with no return, which sends shivers down the spine. "Your enlistment is a shock," confides the mother. "War has suddenly arrived in our country..."
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