I love finding out what the Indie Next pick is every month! Do you know what the Indie Next pick is? It is the book picked from "the top nominations from independent booksellers across the country, showcasing the best of the best debuts and new releases in all categories and genres."
This month is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke and let me tell you it is a "OMG, really?!" read. You just have to read it! In January I reviewed Yesteryear, you can read it by following this link. I loved it, and was so happy I was able to get an early review copy from the publisher, Penguin Random House!
Here's the blurb from the publisher...
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified 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.
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.
Mark your calendars for April 7th because that's when you can find Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke at your favorite local bookstore!
And if you'd like to find all the nominees for this month's Indie Next pick, you can find them on the American Booksellers Association website.
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