"These are the real miseries and pleasures of adolescence told in a voice unmarred by nostalgia, sentimental cadences or political afterthoughts?by ?who I became later.?.Side by side with the heartbroken, heart-breaking narrator, we run for shelter but never quite find it." - David McConnell, author of 'American Honor Killings' A disturbing portrait of Kyle Mason, a sixteen-year-old in aimless flight from a dysfunctional family. Once an honors student who loved to read, Kyle has run away from home and now seeks pleasure in the underground rave culture--his only way of avoiding the trauma of the murder of his older brother, which has thrown his grieving mother into a shrewish, overly critical frame of mind. Fast-forward ten years: Kyle is now a sexually compulsive copywriter living in New York City, hyperactively riding the crests of a narcissistic and self-destructive personality. Through ineffective therapy and risky liaisons, he struggles to save himself. Shocking but also full of humor, Limiters is a wild ride into American fringe cultures that never loses sight of the family dynamics and parental emotions almost all of us must face.

".a Last Exit to Brooklyn, but for kids. Stoddard knows how to spin out on human depravity, and the violence never lets up, it's like a heel held to your throat in the gutter. Yet a rare poetry shines through Kyle's artless confession." - Kevin Killian, author of 'Spreadeagle' and 'Impossible Princess'.