As young Jasper navigates kindergarten through twelfth grade in the anonymity of pre-Millenium suburbia, any scofflaw tactic he stumbles across he adopts.

Panhandling. Shoplifting. Petty Burglary. Video Piracy. Forgery.

Step-by-step, thought-by-thought, theft-by-theft, PILFER relates Jasper's singular tale not of innocence lost but of guiltiness painstakingly gained.