Mad Honey

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boyland

455 Pages

Publisher: Random House – Ballentine Books, Ballentine Books

Release Date: October 4, 2022

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Transgender

Olivia is Asher’s mother and Lily is a teenage girl in a relationship with him. Lily’s mother came home to find her on the sofa with Asher standing over her covered in blood. Was it accident? Premeditated? Olivia calls her brother Jordan for support. What we find is not everyone is who we think.

The story is written in first person point of view from two different perspectives (Olivia and Lily). The characters are well developed and flawed individuals. The story leads up to the incident then one perspective moves backwards while the other goes forward. I admired the strength the women show throughout the story. This is a well written emotional story. It shows how people should be treated for who they are not what they are. It is a story that will stay with the reader long after the last page is read.