A dark-humor, true-crime memoir, Almost Rapist is a story told against the backdrop of the Great Recession, when Jöyce, a lapsed cult member and recent NYU acting school graduate, lands a
Craigslist job assisting an Oscar-winning composer, filmmaker, and jingle writer on the eve of what she finds out is his Supreme Court rape trial following a near-deadly stroke. While her employer laments his
physical recovery as the sole obstacle to his artistic and romantic comeback, Jöyce unravels mounting sexual-assault charges from newspaper accounts as reporters appear near her boss's Upper East Side
apartment. Legal inquiries ... surveillance ... deception ... private investigators posing as lovers and victims ... murder and greed ... all converge in this stunning debut that strikes at the core of the
Sacred Human State grappling with a world that's been built for Commerce.
A luxury velour binding is handsewn with split-board attachments. It is bound in white velour and wrapped in a sparkly pink dust jacket backed with aluminum foil and protected with a glassine
sleeve.
A samizdat velour binding is hand-bound using archival staples with sawn-in hemp cords. It is also wrapped in white velour and dressed in sparkly pink dust jacket backed with aluminum foil and protected
with a glassine sleeve.
Between a paperback book and a hardback, the steifbroschure edition forgoes the velour. The
boards are covered in paper and trimmed flush to the edge of the text block.
PRAISE FOR ALMOST RAPIST
“… it has been a long time since a book left me reeling like this… Jooks is so vividly drawn, so 'real,' … as merely a reader, I am so affected by
Jöyce's struggles, by her amazing powers as an
observer and as a commentator, and of course by the excesses of Jooks, that I am simply blown away.”
–Tony Ortega, Former Editor-In-Chief of The Village Voice; Author of The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper; Editor-In-Chief of The Underground Bunker.
“As with much of Jöyce Miller's odd yet captivating work, I am not sure what I just read, but I definitely want to keep reading it.”
–Christopher Monks, Editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency
JÖYCE is a native Philadelphian of Amish descent based in New York whose satire is published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency online and in their printed compendium, Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: 21 Years of Humor from McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She was among the writers featured at the Brooklyn Powerhouse Arena book launch in October 2019, has written viral pieces that ascended to their Top Ten Most Read Articles of the Year in a matter of weeks, and was mentioned in AfterEllen and Autostraddle. Published works include Bluebird (Bottlecap Press, 2023), Pyramid Scheme (2023), John (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and inclusion in the anthology