My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I played the game of life perfectly.
Pregnant with her sixth child, Natalie lives an idyllic, traditional life on her ranch. She, her husband, and their children raise their own animals, bake their own bread, and are happy and close to God. It’s a nostalgic fairy tale she shares with millions of followers on her profile. Of course, behind this fairy tale are directors, nannies, and state-of-the-art kitchens. So what? Her followers don’t know! As for the Outraged, the privileged feminists who criticize her, they do it out of jealousy: Natalie is living the dream—and making money from it, too!
Until one day, Natalie wakes up on a ranch with no state-of-the-art appliances, not even electricity. Her soft, easygoing husband is a tough farmer, and her children are dirty and strange. Have they trapped her in some twisted reality show? Is God testing her? Or has she really traveled back in time? Whatever is happening, she has to find a way to escape this brutal nightmare.
The year’s most talked-about book is a relentlessly satirical take on the artificial nostalgia industry and the retreat into an idealized past that never existed.
