Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

A satirical debut novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to work out whether she's been pranked, punished, or worse. A GMA Book Club pick.

Natalie Heller Mills has built a massive following by selling a curated, traditional lifestyle to her millions of followers. The picturesque farmhouse. The charming cowboy husband. The artfully cluttered kitchen. The homemade sourdough boules, each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? Her brand is yesterday, and yesterday sells.

Then Natalie wakes up to a life that isn't hers.

Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity. Her children are dirty and strange. Her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was photographing homemade jam for her Instagram. Now she's expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan?

When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, two things become clear. This is not her beautiful life. And she must escape, by any means possible.

A gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood. For readers of The Stepford Wives and The Handmaid's Tale.

"A bold and biting satire. Page-turning and illuminating, this caustic look at the tradwife will have you cackling and gasping right to the final page." Nita Prose, author of The Maid