Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke is the book of the spring, if sales at Wonderland Books are any indication. I was told to go in blind on this one, so I am going to keep this review pretty vague. Yesteryear is about a tradwife influencer named Natalie who lives on a ranch called Yesteryear in Idaho with her husband and five children. She wakes up one day in the 1850s, forced to adapt to the life she has only pretended to live for her smartphone and Instagram followers. The book jumps around in time, covering how Natalie met her husband, had her kids and built her social media empire, and then returning to the nineteenth century where she lives with some version of that husband and those kids, but without any of the luxuries or freedom of her modern life. Yesteryear is told in a snarky, bitter voice which I appreciated, and Burke is full of commentary about influencer culture, Christian tradwives and modern misogyny. While it’s a wholly original and thought-provoking story, I am still not sure how much I actually enjoyed it, as it’s pretty bleak. (But I am glad I read it if only to know what the fuss is about!)