Yesteryear

2. Protective garment of the domestic worker
5. The fabricated 19th-century lifestyle Natalie and Caleb perform for their children
6. To make butter the old-fashioned way; also what a guilty stomach does
7. The false outward face Natalie spent her whole career constructing
8. Season of gathering crops; also of consequences
9. Feather writing instrument of the 19th century
12. Pre-electric light source, made from tallow or beeswax
16. To carefully select and present content
17. Churned dairy product, pioneer staple
18. The culture that plays a key role in Natalie's downfall
19. What Natalie and Caleb built online, and what they destroyed
20. What happens to Natalie's grip on reality over years inside her own deception
22. Romanticised longing for the past
23. To turn the soil before planting
24. Their footage exposes the truth about the homestead
25. Pioneer women's fabric head covering
28. The condition of being raised inside a fabricated world
30. Eight million at Natalie’s peak
31. The public unravelling that destroys the Heller Mills empire
33. Where Natalie first met Reena

1. Fibre, spun and woven
3. Presenting a crafted self to an invisible audience
4. Device for weaving cloth by hand, found on every real homestead
6. Cool underground space for storing food through winter
10. What Natalie was before the fall from grace
11. Restrictive 19th-century undergarment
13. A tradwife influencer with eight million followers
14. The carefully curated online persona Natalie constructed for millions
15. Natalie's Harvard roommate
16. Natalie's eldest daughter, the moral compass who walks her siblings to the highway
21. Youngest son of a senator, happiest doing nothing
24. The literary mode driving Yesteryear's critique of influencer culture
26. Rendered animal fat used to make candles before electricity
27. The senator patriarch whose money funds Yesteryear Ranch
29. The Idaho ranch stripped of all modernity after the scandal
32. The pioneer world's eldest child, whose memoir has the novel's final word