hat makes this a creepy read is that Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) wrote this in 2018, two years before the real-world insurrection, and it’s yet as chilling and disturbing as our own. The story takes place with a wide collection of characters (hint: write them down so as not to be confused) with most of them involved in the overthrow. Working off an online unpopularity list of political and public figures, Adjustment Day finds the various state houses filled with machine gun toting radicals, who quickly kill off pretty much everyone on that list. To get credit for doing it, you need to cut off an ear for DNA matching. The police and military, discouraged with the course of the country (and a make-believe war about to take place, designed to kill off the surge of twenty-somethings) just stand back. And so the old guard is dead, and the fascists are in charge.

One of the first thing on the agenda is to make three new nations, one for blacks, one for whites, and one for gays, no doubt an anti-woke dream. And this is when the novel enters the realm of unintended consequences. For example, any gay who declares himself must be shipped to the gay nation – except that they represent twenty years of support, room and board. In that, they can only be exchanged with straights born of gay parents, a trickle. This ends up with camps of hopeless immigrants, waiting for possibly twenty years for such an expat to decide to come to the white or black nations.

There are other examples of casual cruelties and despair as people attempt to adjust to this grim new world. Outside of large number of characters (nobody told me there would be a quiz), the book does what a book should do – it makes you think (and would likely be banned in Florida).

Yes, once again, life imitates art.

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