Yesteryear, the buzzy new debut novel by Caro Claire Burke, has the form of premise it’s onerous to look away from: a tradwife influencer named Natalie — a Harvard dropout who married wealthy at 20 — wakes up in 1855. Gone are her tastefully discrete home equipment, her prized assortment of luxurious sweaters, her crew of nannies and farm staff. Of their place: an outhouse, stained homespun prairie attire, and hours of back-breaking labor spent washing a single load of laundry with selfmade lye cleaning soap.
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