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A good memoir is entertaining, insightful, and relatable. A great memoir changes you because you see yourself in it. All the Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin is a great memoir. It is nominally a book about a guy who becomes obsessed with chess. But to me, it’s a book about the profound, persistent awareness some people have that we are never in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing, and that obsession, self-loathing, and delusions of grandeur are all just different veneers on our constant attempt to escape this awareness.
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