World Looks Different Now

On a glorious if blisteringly hot Saturday in August 2010 Margaret Thomson's world is suddenly shattered by the incomprehensible news that her twenty-two-year-old son a medic in the army has taken his life. <p/>In a deep state of shock Thomson and her husband immediately travel to Fort Bragg North Carolina where their son Kieran was stationed in an effort to assist their daughter-in-law. Upon their arrival though the couple find themselves plunged into a labyrinthine and at times seemingly bizarre world of military rules and regulations. <p/>Eventually after the funeral and the memorial services are over an even more challenging journey--emotionally as well as geographically--ensues especially for Margaret who as a former journalist is determined to find out more about the circumstances surrounding her son's death no matter how high the cost. <p/>As she enters her second year of grieving Thomson receives an unexpected invitation from an unlikely source--the army which she's often blamed in many ways whether fairly or not for her son's death. Seizing upon this opportunity Thomson finds that her perspective is changed--literally--and that as a result the world does indeed look different now.