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This book follows Natalie Heller Mills, a tradwife influencer with millions of followers, who sells an online fantasy of perfection, faith, and family. She seems to have the ideal “traditional woman” lifestyle, until she is suddenly thrown into the harsh reality of 19th-century frontier life. Once she actually steps into the past she has romanticised, she discovers that the so-called “good old days” were far from perfect, especially for women constrained by family, gender roles, and social expectations. Through time travel, dark satire, and social media culture, the novel challenges our ideas of what “tradition” and “happiness” really mean.
How did a shopkeeper in New York's Chinatown build a multi-million-dollar human smuggling empire? In The Snakehead, investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe (Empire of Pain) traces the rise and fall of Sister Ping, opening with the 1993 grounding of the Golden Venture, a ship packed with Fujianese migrants. Part sweeping crime saga, part indictment of America's immigration system, the book asks what people will pay for the American Dream. A24 is developing a series adaptation.