Honey

Description

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

“Might be the most-anticipated debut novel of the year thanks in part to its perfect-for-Hollywood premise.”–Esquire

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Glamour, Debutiful, Book Riot, Esquire, SheReads, Elle, 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?
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Imani Thompson
Published: 05/05/2026
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780593979761
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 1.40″ H x 8.40″ L x 5.60″ W

About the Author
Imani Thompson is a British writer with Jamaican heritage. During her time studying sociology at the University of Cambridge, her short stories were published in The Mays and won the Vogue new writer’s prize. She wrote Honey while working as a bookseller at Daunt Books and is now at work on her second novel.