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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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A #1 New York Times bestseller and GMA Book Club pick, praised by Kirkus Reviews as "a remarkable debut — both a book for the moment and one that will endure."

A "perfect" tradwife influencer wakes up trapped in the 1800s farm life she's been faking for Instagram — and she has to figure out if it's a hoax, a hidden-camera stunt, or something impossible.

Natalie Heller Mills has millions of followers who believe she lives a flawless, old-fashioned farm life on her idyllic Idaho homestead, "Yesteryear." She churns butter, bakes bread, and tends chickens in curated photos — but her followers never see the nannies, producers, and modern conveniences propping it all up.

When a producer she hires to grow her platform starts exposing the gap between Online Natalie and the real one, her perfectly staged life begins to unravel. Then, after an unaccounted stretch of time, Natalie wakes up living an unpolished, brutal version of "Yesteryear" in 1855.

Her children don't recognize her. Her husband looks the same but acts like a stranger.

Natalie must figure out whether she's the victim of a prank, a hidden reality show, or something she can't yet explain — all while confronting how much of her "perfect" life was ever real to begin with.

A #1 New York Times bestseller and GMA Book Club pick, praised by Kirkus Reviews as "a remarkable debut — both a book for the moment and one that will endure."

A "perfect" tradwife influencer wakes up trapped in the 1800s farm life she's been faking for Instagram — and she has to figure out if it's a hoax, a hidden-camera stunt, or something impossible.

Natalie Heller Mills has millions of followers who believe she lives a flawless, old-fashioned farm life on her idyllic Idaho homestead, "Yesteryear." She churns butter, bakes bread, and tends chickens in curated photos — but her followers never see the nannies, producers, and modern conveniences propping it all up.

When a producer she hires to grow her platform starts exposing the gap between Online Natalie and the real one, her perfectly staged life begins to unravel. Then, after an unaccounted stretch of time, Natalie wakes up living an unpolished, brutal version of "Yesteryear" in 1855.

Her children don't recognize her. Her husband looks the same but acts like a stranger.

Natalie must figure out whether she's the victim of a prank, a hidden reality show, or something she can't yet explain — all while confronting how much of her "perfect" life was ever real to begin with.

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  • Publisher: Knopf

    Title: Yesteryear

    Author: Caro Claire Burke

    On Sale Date: July 7, 2026

    ISBN-13: 9780593804216

    ISBN-10: 059380421X

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00 USD

    BISAC: Fiction / Satire

    Page Count: 400

    Dimensions: 9.5 in H | 6.5 in W | 1.3 in T

    Weight: 1.4 lb

  • Caro Claire Burke holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and co-hosts the politics and culture podcast Diabolical Lies. Yesteryear is her debut novel; she has built a large social media following for her commentary on "tradwife" culture, feminism, and online identity, and film rights to the book have been acquired by Amazon MGM Studios, with Anne Hathaway attached to star and produce.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it wicked, addictive, and unnerving:

    • Early readers describe Yesteryear as wicked, addictive, and unnerving.

    • "I could not put this down — I read it in two sittings."

    • "Equal parts hilarious and horrifying, sometimes on the same page."

    • "The kind of book club pick that turns into a two-hour argument."

This book is for you if:

  • You love a sharp, funny satire that skewers influencers and “tradwife” lifestyle.

  • You want a narrator who is kinda bitchy, vain, and self-absorbed — yet somehow you like rooting for her.

  • You’re drawn to genre-blending fiction that mixes psychological suspense and social commentary.

  • You want a page-turner premise (is it a hoax? a time slip? a nightmare?) that keeps you guessing until the end.

  • You like reading buzzy debuts early — this one is already a #1 New York Times bestseller, a GMA Book Club pick, and in development as a film starring Anne Hathaway.

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