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    ‘The Index of Self-Destructive Acts’ looks at the ways people mess up

    Jul 22, 2020 2 minutes

    Christopher Beha’s thoughtful and entertaining novel “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts” probes the intersecting lives of a small group of people in New York City caught up in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown.

    The book’s title refers to a baseball statistic, invented by American baseball writer and statistician Bill James, which

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