PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksAt its best, the novel brings into focus the perverse world of parasocial interdependence—the only sort of ecosystem that could produce figures like Natalie ... Yesteryear’s critique in its early sections is well earned. The tradwife influencer, in Burke’s telling, may be on its face a repudiation of the girlboss but is in fact one of its more disingenuous and corrosive manifestations ... For all its missteps and its frequent heavy-handedness, Yesteryear is difficult to dismiss. The novel grapples with forces it cannot yet metabolize, and for this it cannot seriously be faulted.
