Tradwife

 Tradwife is crime fiction written in an epistolary/found footage style about murders that take place in a community made for families with traditional wives. The social commentary is so sharp that I had to remind myself that I was reading fiction and not a case study of an alt right community.  

The whodunnit mystery captured in the form of podcast transcriptions tends to be a hit or a miss for me. However Tradwives was an addicting read for me. 

 There are multiple shout outs to the dystopian classics Stepford Wives and Handmaid's Tale in Tradwife. As Stepford Wives is one of my favorite horror classics, I never tire of new twists on that story. This likely affects my strong recommendation of this book.

There are all the trigger warnings you'd expect for this kind of subject matter: rape, domestic abuse, racism...and of course gruesome murders.  Like any solid fiction on culturally relevant horrors, it was disturbing in a way that makes the reader empathetic for victims of these kinds of terrors. And it really leans into the need for the fight between perpetrators of violence against women. This is exactly the kind of subversive book I needed to read right now.