![]() Portland is a hotbed of political idealism. ![]() I got the idea the same way I developed Fight Club: By talking to people. It seems obvious, but I’ll ask anyway: Where did you get the idea for Adjustment Day and how different is the finished novel from that initial idea? What could go wrong? In a nutshell, it’s A Handmaid’s Tale crossed with The Turner Diaries but with a boatload of laughs. Grassroots teams from the black community, the white community, and the LGBQ community wipe out the governing elites and divvy up the formerly united states to create three antonymous homelands where each group can hold sway. In a general sense, what is Adjustment Day about?Īdjustment Day is a wish fulfillment fantasy aimed at every race separatist, black or white, and every LGBT activist who’s dreamed of a homeland where they form the dominant culture. But in the following email interview, he talks about how this story was also inspired by a classic science fiction novel, as well as his recent work in comic books. ![]() While he’s often tapped into the zeitgeist, writer Chuck Palahniuk has really hit a vein with his new novel, Adjustment Day ( paperback, hardcover, Kindle), a dark, odd, and (sadly) socially-relevant tale. ![]()
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