"A dystopian nightmare that takes all the fractures of our modern society and escalates them to a perverted climax." -- Kirkus Reviews "Visionary and fearless... perhaps [Palahniuk's] darkest, most biting satire to date.... [R]azor-sharp insights and boundless imagination are matched only by his ability to make even the most stomach-churning scenes somehow vividly entertaining.... [E]qual parts Jonathan Swift and Tyler Durden." -- Booklist "Palahniuk takes the United States' divided politics to an extreme conclusion and proves along the way that his gift for social satire has only sharpened with time." -- Shelf Awareness "[Palahniuk] joins Sinclair Lewis and George Orwell in Dystopia.... There are traces of noir, magical realism, sf, and horror. It's all there, with the power to amuse, astound, and provoke." -- Library Journal "[Adjustment Day] is what you'd expect from the author best known for writing Fight Club: violent, kinetic, and deeply disturbing." -- Kerry Shaw - Goodreads "A send-up of the many absurdities in our society." -- Mackenzie Dawson - New York Post "A must-read." -- Gavin Sheehan - Bleeding Cool "Palahniuk toys with our cultural dividing lines.... The result is a novel that straddles both the horrific and the absurd, kind of like present-day America." -- Peter Rugh - Vice "A novel made out of the times we're living in." -- Graeme McMillan - Hollywood Reporter "A quick, horrifying descent into madness and murder, gorgeous in its psychotic build-up and over-the-top execution." -- Jason Sheehan - NPR
Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class men dream of burying the elites. Adjustment Day's arrival makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.
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