ABC The Hague Book Club: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Hooray! After a long absence, ABC The Hague has a book club again!

Join us every first Sunday of the month, upstairs in the store, for an hour of chatting about the book club book (and others, too, undoubtedly), and also just being in the comforting company of other book lovers.

The September book to start us off is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.
Please note that we'll only have 15 spots available, so reserve yours soon!

The books for the rest of the year will be Greta & Valdin (October), Extracurricular (November), and Bad Habit (December).

Happy reading!

About the September book, Yesteryear:

"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 Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? 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 brutal 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.