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'Night Moves' Captures Fleeting Moments In Chicago — And Life

Jessica Hopper's memoir oscillates between charting a story of gentrification, a young woman's love affair with Chicago, and the types of friendships that represent the texture of a city.
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For some, there's a niggling feeling of being inside your own life that attacks you in your late 20s.

You're past your early adolescence, grounded in one place and in friendships, looking at the world around you and thinking: I am on the cusp of becoming exactly the person I am.

Meditations on this specific stage of adulthood are laced throughout music-critic Jessica Hopper's tightly-written memoir Though the book isn't structured with any type of chronology,

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