MyLinh Shattan

Before I left the house

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Two days.

Until book launch.

I’m heading to West Point today for the Athena’s Arena Conference — fifty years of women at the federal service academies, gathered on the same ground where I graduated in 1991, where my daughter Cara graduated thirty years later.

The books arrived early. Friends posted and shared — they got their copies before I left the house.

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That’s the thing about putting a book into the world. It starts moving before you’re ready.

I’ll be at West Point through Wednesday — talking, signing, and sitting with a story that took seven years to finish. Launch day is Tuesday, April 21.

It’s almost time.

More soon.

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Mylinh Shattan is a writer who has lived on three continents, served in the Army, worked in corporate America, and taught in college. She loves adventures, in the world and in the mind. Literature is relevant and learning is a lifelong pursuit, so you might as well have a bit of fun along the way.

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