What “The Queen’s Gambit” Gets Right About Adoption
10 min readNov 16, 2020
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Being a child prodigy is not all fun and games. Neither is being an adoptee.
**Spoiler alerts for those who have not seen the series**
After watching the Netflix drama mini-series, The Queen’s Gambit, I was struck by so much. The set design, the makeup and costumes, the characters, and of course, the chess. As a woman, I was in awe of the lead…