Natalie, a devout Christian housewife and successful Instagram influencer, is married to a senator’s youngest son and promotes an idyllic ranch life in Idaho. She has a large household supported by a producer, nannies, and many children. After waking up in 1855, she confronts a different world while seeking meaning in religion and fixed gender roles. The story brings together religious searching, the manosphere, post-feminism, and antagonistic political factions. The narrative functions like a time-and-place treatise, comparing the deranged 21st century and Donald Trump’s United States with the past, despite the distance between them.
"Natalie, or Nattie, is a devout Christian and a proud housewife. She is intelligent but believes little can be learned at university. Well-married no, phenomenally well-married to the youngest son of a senator who is a potential presidential candidate. A potential presidential candidate for none other than the United States. We also know that Natalie has kneaded a not-inconsiderable amount of bread and gained several million followers on her account, which promotes the benefits of bucolic life on a ranch in the mountains of Idaho."
"But then Nattie wakes up in 1855. Yes, the era of cowboys and the gold rush (and smallpox, and sandstorms) that she so lovingly depicted in her posts. There is a search for meaning in religion and gender roles; there are the manosphere and post-feminism; there are antagonistic political factions. Yesteryear is one of those books that resemble a treatise on a time and a place."
"In this case, our deranged 21st century and the United States of Donald Trump, fanaticism, and regression a country against which we inevitably compare ourselves, no matter how much distance separates us. Yesteryear is Caro Claire Burke's debut novel but Burke has plent"
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