No one I know wants to go spend their one wild and magical life being a shill for some billionaire tech asshole, says Shannon, a character in Yesteryear, the buzzy new novel about a tradwife influencer by Caro Claire Burke.
I really was that woman. I was the original fucking tradwife, she told the Lipstick on the Rim podcast, embellishing later, in an interview for the New York Times (marking the reissue of her 1982 cookbook, Entertaining): And I was just as pretty as those girls, and more organised. I suppose she's not wrong she was already combining the homemaking, empire-building and self-promotional elements that characterise tradwifery 40 years ago