I. Valedictorian. The instructions -- Deletion -- The warrant -- "Good news!" -- The arrest -- "Disciplinary measure" -- Exile: Zone 9 -- II. Zone 9. The happy place -- Typewriter -- The lost one -- Coed -- Lost friends -- He, him -- Wolfman -- Lonely -- Possibly -- Dean's list -- The spell -- Orphan -- Suddenly -- The denial -- The wall -- The Museum of Natural History -- Shelter -- The sacrifice -- Adoration -- The searchers -- The test -- The exam -- The failing grade -- Wolfman my love: selected memories -- Sane -- The lonely girl I -- The lonely girl II -- April -- "Terminated" -- Elopement -- The bat -- III. Wainscotia Falls. Saved -- The miracle -- Grief -- Visitors -- "Uncle" -- Heron Creek Farm.

"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.

Text in English.