Honey

A dark, provocative, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Esquire, Elle, Glamour, Debutiful, Book Riot, SheReads, Stylist

She just wants to know what justice feels like.

Yrsa is bored: bored with her PhD program, her entitled students, and the never-ending pages of racial violence and feminist theory she has to read. But most of all, she’s bored with the men in her life–especially the bad ones.

And then, one sunny afternoon, she accidentally kills one.

Suddenly a problematic professor is dead, and Yrsa, well–she’s no longer bored.

Emboldened, she starts to chase the high, and soon no misbehaving sexist man within commuting distance is safe.

Finally Yrsa’s academic research feels useful. But how long can killing in the name of feminist and racial solidarity justify her actions? And how long until her actions–and buried family secrets–come back to unravel her?

Author: Imani Thompson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780593979761
Language: English