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 - and 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 and 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 and questioning the
constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating.
Arresting and visionary Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an
exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates's most unexpected novel so far.
