Yesteryear
by Caro Claire Burke
Tradwife influencer wakes up in 1855. Not what she advertised.
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you want the tradwife aesthetic examined by someone who sends its most devoted practitioner directly into the world she's been romanticizing
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Natalie Heller Mills is a tradwife influencer — the curated sourdough, the modest dresses, the performance of wifely devotion — who wakes up in 1855 and discovers that the past she has been selling to her followers is a nightmare she cannot filter or edit or log off from. Burke's debut is wickedly precise about the gap between the aesthetic of tradition and its reality: the actual labor, the actual powerlessness, the actual bodies of women in a world that didn't pretend to offer them choices. A social satire, a thriller, and a dark comedy simultaneously. The most timely novel on the Laugh & Resist shelf — a book that lets the tradwife fantasy encounter itself and finds out exactly what it was always selling.
Where This Book Lives
- Themes
- gender rolestime travel
Part of a Reading Journey
Same pattern, different era
Different time, different place. The same thing keeps happening.
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For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
