Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates

What came before the beginning of Time?

What came before the Great Terrorist Attacks of 9/11?

When Adriane Strohl uses her high school valedictorian speech to ask a series of pointed questions about the world in which has grown up -- officially known as the North American States, or NAS -- she is deemed a provocateur and arrested on seven counts of Treason- Speech and Questioning of Authority. Her punishment is to be 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 she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.

Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery -- and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.

Genres: Science Fiction - Time Travel - Dystopia - Fantasy - Speculative Fiction - Science Fiction Fantasy - The United States of America - American Author