Caro Claire Burke’s debut centers on Natalie, a tradwife influencer who has built a devoted following by selling her picture-perfect pioneer life on an Idaho ranch. Everything changes when she wakes up cold and disoriented in 1855 — and has to figure out whether what’s happening to her is real. Sharp, funny, and genuinely unsettling, it’s a novel that uses an outlandish premise to say something true about the performances modern women are expected to maintain.
Caro Claire Burke’s debut centers on Natalie, a tradwife influencer who has built a devoted following by selling her picture-perfect pioneer life on an Idaho ranch. Everything changes when she wakes up cold and disoriented in 1855 — and has to figure out whether what’s happening to her is real. Sharp, funny, and genuinely unsettling, it’s a novel that uses an outlandish premise to say something true about the performances modern women are expected to maintain.
