Check your dignity at the door as you stride across the welcome mat with Jay Hauser in this insightful and strangely touching story about and the lengths we go to to succeed in a world that values charisma, competition, and acceptance above all else. Set on the elite campus of Dartmouth College and in the well-heeled reaches of the Detroit suburbs, this provides a startlingly authentic and often hilarious glimpse of life through the eyes of an indulged and misguided young hustler.

Jay Hauser is wrapping up his first year at Dartmouth when he takes a summer job selling knives door-to-door to prove to Isabelle, the great love of his life, that he is charming enough to pull it off. His quest quickly becomes a dark obsession as he works his way up the knife-selling ladder trying to win the summer sales competition and lands neck-deep in an that is harder to break away from than he could ever have imagined. As sophomore year looms on the horizon, Jay's summer "break" has evolved into a hazy bender spent lying and scamming his way through all the places -- and people -- he once called home. Knifeboy marks the of a fine young writer who reveals the of a ravenous generation in a lavish and unforgiving world.

Tod Harrison Williams is a writer and filmmaker. He is currently in post-production on Trainwreck: My Life as An Idiot, a film he wrote and directed starring Seann William Scott, Gretchen Mol, and Jeff Garlin. He lives in New York City.