Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke | Paperback
From The Girlies BookClub
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๐ About this Book
Natalie Heller Mills has built an empire around the image of the perfect traditional wife.
To her millions of followers, she lives an idyllic life on a beautiful ranch with her husband and children, baking from scratch, raising a family, and embracing a simpler way of living. Behind the perfectly curated posts, however, there are nannies, producers, expensive equipment, and plenty Natalie would rather keep off camera.
Then one morning, Natalie wakes up somewhere that looks disturbingly familiar, except now there is no electricity, no staff, no social media, and no carefully staged version of domestic life.
She appears to be living in 1855.
Suddenly the pioneer lifestyle she has spent years romanticizing is no longer an aesthetic. It is exhausting, dangerous, dirty, and very real. Natalie has to figure out whether she has somehow travelled through time, become part of an elaborate hoax, or fallen into something even more sinister.
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โค๏ธ Why Sumaia Recommends It
This one immediately caught my attention because the idea is so clever.
A woman who has built her entire identity around selling the fantasy of traditional domestic life is suddenly forced to actually live it, without all the modern conveniences hidden behind the camera.
It is sharp, darkly funny, uncomfortable, and very relevant to the way social media can turn a lifestyle into a performance. I especially like that it plays with the gap between what we romanticize online and what real life actually looks like.
Definitely a book for readers who enjoy stories that are entertaining on the surface but have a lot to say underneath.
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โจ Perfect For
๐ฑ Social media satire ๐ก Domestic drama ๐ฐ๏ธ Time-slip stories ๐ค Dark humor ๐ฉ Complicated female characters ๐ฅ Sharp social commentary ๐ง Psychological fiction ๐ณ Unsettling reads ๐ Book club discussions ๐ญ Thought-provoking stories
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๐ฆ Whatโs Included
๐ Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke โ 1 Paperback Book โ Condition: Brand New ๐ฆ Ships across the UAE, GCC & Middle East
Customs Fees
โ ๏ธ International orders may be subject to customs fees (paid by the customer).
โ Reading Mood
๐ฐ๏ธ Strange ๐ค Darkly Funny ๐ณ Unsettling ๐ฅ Sharp ๐ฑ Satirical ๐ก Domestic ๐ง Psychological ๐ญ Thought-provoking ๐ญ Absurd โจ Addictive
๐ Tropes
โข Tradwife Influencer โข Social Media Fame โข Curated vs Real Life โข Time Travel / Time Slip โข 1850s Setting โข Pioneer Life โข Domestic Labor โข Marriage โข Motherhood โข Female Identity โข Survival โข Isolation โข Unreliable Reality โข Dark Humor โข Social Satire
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