Hazards Of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
In a near-future authoritarian state, a gifted teenager is punished for a moment of dissent by being exiled to 1959 Wisconsin under an assumed identity, forbidden to reveal her origins or form attachments. As she navigates the constricted social norms and behaviorist-dominated academic world of a small college, she falls for a conflicted instructor and tests the boundaries of her punishment, even as her memories blur and the threat of erasure looms. The narrative explores surveillance, conditioning, and the fragile malleability of identity and history.
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- 2018
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