Yesteryear
Book of the Week: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Succinctly reviewed by curious reader, and friend of the shop, Pia 🙏
”By some estimates, ‘trad wife’ is one of the fastest growing niches in the US$250 billion social media creator economy (yes, you read that number right).
Caro Claire Burke’s much talked about debut, Yesteryear, has a delicious plot: a trad wife social media star (who, incidentally, bears more than a passing resemblance to Hannah Neehleman of Ballerina Farm fame), wakes up one morning in her home but a version that is set in the 1850s, devoid of electricity and running water.
The plot twist is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea but the acidity of the writing (‘…this was the world I was born into: a world where good Christian women moonlighted as crises managers for their good Christian men’ or ‘In the world I came from, divorce was a German word that translated loosely into a lifetime of destitution and misery followed by an eternity in Hell’) makes for a thoroughly entertaining read.”
Happy reading!