Fatis is a reporter who takes off a year to become a competitive Scrabble player. In this time, he reports on the characters, the history of the game, the atmosphere, the personal challenges, and the oddity surrounding competitive scrabble.

On the back cover, is a quote from Frank Deford that sums up the book pretty well.

As they say in the Scrabble world, Fatis got great tiles when he set out to write this book -- a slew of memorable characters and a competitive subculture as bizarre as any I've ever seen in sport.

At times, Fatis meanders through the storyline, but I generally enjoyed this and the portraits of the great Scrabble players.

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