Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates

“Time travel” — & its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world & is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty years before.  Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”—but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile & questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating & liberating.  

Arresting & visionary, Hazards of Time Travel  is both a novel of harrowing discovery & an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far.

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