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PCJ Pop #23 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  - Hi, I'm Shauna and I'm here with Olivia.
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  And this is this week's PCJ Pop.
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  This week I am popping a book.
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  It is called “Trad Wife: A Novel."
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  This is probably one of the best books
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  that I've read in years.
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  It was gripping from the very beginning.
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  So it was written by Saratoga Schaefer.
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  It is a horror novel about a social media influencer,
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  "TradWife," who secretly struggles
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  with infertility and getting pregnant,
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  but she knows that having a baby
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  would just increase those views
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  and probably help her marriage,
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  which seems to be a little rocky at the moment.
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  And she will go to any links necessary to have this baby.
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  This book was funny and violent.
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  There's body horror.
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  It's disgusting.
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  It'll make you angry at social media influencers
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  and it tradwives.
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  So much of it is just her internal dialogue.
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  Like, "Well, I have my beige countertops
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  and my marble floors.
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  And then I'm gonna put the baby in a beige onesie.
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  And I have my ring light perfectly set up.
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  And oh, all my followers sure will love this.
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  And I made my husband the steak that he loves
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  and just kind of her slow descent to madness."
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  Yes.
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  It was incredible.
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  And I'm definitely gonna look into more of Sarah Toga
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  Schaefer's books.
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  They are a non-binary feminist author
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  who apparently has some other great stories
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  to tell that have come out.
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  But “Trad Wife" was a instant USA Today best seller described
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  as a modern day Rosemary's Baby.
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  So I am potentially going to give that a pop,
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  especially for you, Olivia.
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  You need to read it so I can gab about it with somebody.
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  My “Trad Wife" aspiration.
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  Need to read it before I pop it.
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  You do.
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  You have to.
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  This will make you not want to be a “Trad Wife."
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  That will be my PCJ pop.
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  Come back next week for another hit.
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