AMS Book Club - October

Host: Melissa N’s home (SW Rochester) or over Zoom for those who prefer, email

sharontjoyce@gmail.com for information.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORK TIMES

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • A traditional American woman, a “tradwife”

influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether

this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more

sinister in this sensational debut novel.

"A bold and biting satire, Yesteryear...will have you cackling and gasping right to the final

page."

—Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series

My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.

Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a

handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are

nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and

ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of

them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League,

coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy.

Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens

to be building an empire from it.

Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her

children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire

rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is

suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade

jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until

her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it

really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal

injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must

escape by any means possible.

A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a

gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.