So many Americans demand safe identity-defined spaces, or outright nations.”The author dived right into specific examples of what he dubs as such: “And this trend has only increased with Calexit, and Keith Ellison’s demand for a black nation in the American Southeast, and Jared Taylor’s advocating for an ethnically white nation, and the Hotep Nation… same deal,” Palahniuk said. “The only news I got was via the web, and it was odd being outside the United States looking in. “ Adjustment Day started six years ago when I rented an apartment in Madrid and spent months there, making final revisions to my story collection,” Palahniuk said. Now that he’s got a new novel coming out for the first time in four years, I sat down with Palahniuk to discuss his return to the written word.Īdjustment Day, Palahniuk’s new book, appears to be an expansion on some of the themes he delved into with Fight Club, and it’s a story he’s wanted to tell for a long time. The over-the-top premise is classic Palahniuk, but he stumbles in its delivery, focusing more on the farcical aspects of these societies rather than on the characters living in them, resulting in a thin story.From the searing satire of Fight Club to the bleak comedic horror of Haunted and Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk has long been considered one of the more affecting and abrasive of contemporary authors. One elder white woman blackfaces to awkwardly fit in, while a heterosexual couple passes as gay so they aren’t permanently separated. As misplaced citizens flee, others must hide in plain sight. New leaders arise from the rebels, creating three separatist states: Caucasia, which reverts to a medieval society Blacktopia, which springboards into a magical and technologically advanced world and Gaysia, a state consumed with outing heterosexuals and inseminating lesbians to keep the economy in balance. With the American government on the verge of reinstating the military draft, Talbott’s followers rebel, killing and enslaving all journalists, politicians, and academics. Soon, copies of a blue and black book proliferate quickly underground through the U.S., speaking of an Adjustment Day that will bring power to the powerless. As American society continues to fail the common man, the mysterious actor Talbott Reynolds appears on radio and TV promising a new system built truly by the people. The defiance of social order well-known from Palahniuk’s Fight Club finds new-if stunted-life.
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