![]() ![]() It’s weird and funny and mean and considerate all at once. This is social commentary as only Palahniuk could deliver it. You see, if you remove the book jacket for Adjustment Day, the blue hardcover beneath reads “Talbott Reynolds.” By simply carrying around the book in this state, you’ve become part of the narrative, which forces you to question how you’d conduct yourself in this society. Once Adjustment Day commenced the list would be taken down. As absurd as it is engaging, the novel lampoons our society’s hypocrisies, biases, and excesses, even while building a utopia that’s even more insane and dysfunctional.Īs always, Palahniuk goes deeper, even making the reader part of the story. The editorials and book reviews and investigative reporting that. Once Palahniuk turns society on its ear, its a rich milieu in which the author can experiment with characters, form, style, and an acidic wit that savages. Adjustment Day is coming, and it’ll change everything…for a while.Īdjustment Day is Palahniuk’s razor-sharp take on nationalism, conspiracy theories, and social movements. But there’s a new movement gathering strength in the shadows, one determined to set things right by any means. Government officials are planning a sham war just to decimate the numbers of angry young men in the country. Racism, homophobia, and ignorance abound. ![]()
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