Yesteryear

“I'd assumed I would step into the role naturally since the role itself was natural, was nature. But nothing felt natural about this."

At Yesteryear Ranch, Natalie Heller Mills has constructed the perfect life. Meticulously framed in her kitchen—all modern appliances hidden from plain view—Natalie sells a simplistic, honest-to-goodness, unattainable, good Christian life. Caro Claire Burke's debut is a cutting satire that dissects the internet age artifice of the "trad wife" influencer and follows the arteries of its ideology to a black heart. Endlessly compelling, Yesteryear is a character study of the culture war's central weapon of a tradition that never was and what it takes to go back to where we've never been.