The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game new and mood swings of raising

and mood swings of raising his daughter Leia as she grows from a sweet little girl into a rebellious teenager

Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy

Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm

But when unexpectedly Kei moves away and returns a few years later to reunite in high school

The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game new and mood swings of raisingBrilliant and wildly original . . . Nguyen is a connoisseur of games, and his musings about them are ingenious and entertaining . . . The Score is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee. Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post I give this excellent book five stars. Stuart Jeffries, Financial Times Quirky and enthusiastic . . . [In The Score, Nguyen] combines an enthusiasts celebration of games inner workings with a lament