#57 The Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol OatesTime 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.
Time travel with dystopian society. And a well established writer. So many things going for it. What could go wrong? This book was utter garbage in every aspect. The plot made no sense. The girl was an idiot. The love story was cringe worthy. What a waste of time.
