A viral tradwife thriller sends its heroine back to the actual 1850s life she was selling online. A 13th-century Belgian saint's miracles go "viral" long before the internet exists. Ksenija and Sue put the two side by side to ask why we build women up in public just to watch them fall, and whether the church controlling a saint's story is really so different from an algorithm controlling a creator's reach.

📚 Books Mentioned

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• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke: https://amzn.to/3UfhtJx
• Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards: https://amzn.to/4iaWL7y
• Canon by Paige Lewis: https://amzn.to/4xCofYb
• Whistler by Ann Patchett: https://amzn.to/4guFaWZ

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🎙 ABOUT TRANSATLANTIC BOOKMARKS

Hosted by European novelist Ksenija Popović and American engineer Sue Graham Johnston, Transatlantic Bookmarks is a weekly literary podcast that uses books as the starting point for conversations about culture, history, psychology, morality, politics, and the questions hiding between the lines.

New episodes every Saturday.

👉 CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:14 The Trad Wife Fantasy
09:41 Where Yesteryear Goes Wrong
13:46 Dumping Non-Fiction and Reading Bad Books
19:04 Ksenija's Positive Social Media Experience
24:14 Losing Authenticity Online
30:05 Canticle: Miracles, Relics, and the Business of Sainthood
48:55 Freedom, Aging, and Who Gets to Be Free in Public
01:02:44 Our Podcasting Adventure
01:09:12 Reading Recommendations