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- Hello and welcome to your PCJ pop, I'm Olivia.
- And I'm Shauna.
- And this week we're gonna continue
with the book Pops for the Week.
- Well I have been absolutely sucked in by a book
that has kind of taken the press by Storm.
It's called "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke.
- Shauna, have you heard anything about this?
- That's not.
- Okay, so it is a satirical novel
about a tradwife social media influencer
who wakes up to find herself in 1855,
forced to live the harsh traditional farm life.
She only pretends to portray online,
leaning to dark and humorous exploration of fame,
motherhood and faith as she navigates a nightmare
of reality.
- That sounds amazing.
I just read a book called "Tradwife."
- Okay, yes, Sarah.
- Sarah Toga, a couple months ago.
- Yeah, I remember.
- It was totally muted.
- Yeah, so it's so good.
- So at publishing time when this book was released
and "Hathaway" bought the rights to this movie,
it's unclear if she is going to be the person
who plays the main character in it,
but it's very, very good.
I'm like halfway through it right now.
I will say it is such a timely introspection
into that world of religion, traditional marital values.
I will say the women's rights.
The first 10 chapters, this woman sucks,
but that's kind of the whole point of it.
So it's very, very good.
It's very interesting.
So the writer is actually a TikTok influencer,
followed her for a long time.
She's like a podcast as well,
where she really looks at,
okay, what are we trying to say
with this child white prize?
And so she's written quite a few articles about it
and then started to write this book.
And I think it is just really, really amazing
and great writing.
And I love to see these people who we look at
as influencers where it's, oh, it's so vapid,
but they really do have interesting things to say.
So I'm all here for smart and intelligent women
expanding and showing that they have something
interesting to say.
- Like us.
- Yeah, they're not just talking to their phones.
You know, they have the capacity and ability
to really analyze these things
and what it means to be a woman today.
So one more time, what is it called in?
Who's the author?
- Yesteryear by Carro Claire Burke.
You can find it on Spotify if you have premium,
but also at your local library, very, very good.
Right now it's only hardcover.
So if you are a paperback person, I am sorry.
- But that's gonna be it for your PCJ Pop.
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