An ingenious, dystopian novel of 1 young woman’s level of resistance against the constraints of the oppressive society, from the inventive creativity of Joyce Carol Oates

“Time travel” – and its hazards-are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic young lady dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (upcoming) world and is punished when you are sent back with time to an area of THE UNITED STATES – “Wainscotia, Wisconsin”-that existed eighty years before. Ensemble adrift in time with this idyllic Midwestern city she is established upon a span of “treatment”-but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains from the Wainscotia world with outcomes that are both devastating and liberating.

Arresting and visionary, Risks of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing breakthrough and an exquisitely wrought love story which may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unpredicted novel up to now.