only in Instagram? only in America? 

Caro Claire Burke: Yesteryear. 

What a ride! I do not often read books which are trending, those which "everyone" reads at the moment. But - this was intrigued me.

This book can be read as a crazy story of Natalie who marries a bit of a bore of a young man, a son of a very influental and wealthy man, politically ambitious and then Nat, buys a farm, Yesteryear with the money she gets from the father of her husband ´s father and then she starts having babies (how many there were in the end, 10?) and Instagram followers, soon millions, so soon she has a booming business and a world which has absolutely no contact into real world (and she also has no real contact to her kids, only as being part of her content). Then something crazy happens, she falls to the time period year 1855 which she acted on being)  and she is all of the sudden in them olden days, like for real, and how crazy all that is. Now she hasn ´t got her nannies, her helpers, her videographers, her paid entourage but she has a husband, those kids she doesn ´t know, farm animals, and of so much work and quite a little actual knowing how to manage in a dairy farm … 

Okay, you can read this as a very entertaining crazy story or you can dig into the different layers of the world and cult of trad wifes, the culture of Instagram, the American politics, crazy Trumpland, christianity, church, campaingning, mental disorders, drugs, medication, divorce, marriage, children and parents realtions, home schooling, sercrets, abortion, being a wife and a mother…. There was a lot (yet the ending was a bit fast…). 

I enjoyed this a lot!!!, all the themes, the story and I think this book has it ´s merits both as an easy entertainment but also as a very point on political opinion.

vVery different, very good! (and I bet there will be movie, soon)