{"product_id":"adjustment-day-9780393652598","title":"Adjustment Day","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eAdjustment Day\u003c\/em\u003e, the author's first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this dyspeptic time a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eImagine there's no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son and the world you leave for them.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe weak want you to forgo your destiny just as they've shirked theirs.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eA smile is your best bulletproof vest.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePalahniuk, Chuck:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eChuck Palahniuk\u003c\/strong\u003e is the best-selling author of more than eighteen fictional works, including \u003cem\u003eFight Club\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInvisible Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChoke\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLullaby\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDiary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHaunted\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePygmy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTell-All\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDamned\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDoomed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeautiful You\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Sound\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50411060363538,"sku":"9780393652598","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0590e37-242a-4c6e-9664-deae6a735e20.jpg?v=1729309997","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/adjustment-day-9780393652598","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}