Yesteryear
by Caro Claire Burke
Tradwife influencer wakes up in 1855. Not what she advertised.
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
- Satire & Absurdism
