Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Graceby Anne Lamott 248 L235s Introduction to World Religions, 3rd Edition 200 I61p Life's Messy, Live Happy: Things Don't Have to Be Perfect for You to Be Content by Cy Wakeman 158 W149l
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativityby Julia Cameron 153.35 C182a You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of Warby Elizabeth Becker 070.44 B395y The gods found mankind endlessly funny."Īdjustment Day is a welcome return for Palahniuk and one that will entertain gods and mortals alike.Auditing Diversity in Library Collectionsby Sarah Voels 025.21 V874a "For the ancient Greeks," he writes, "the absurd was closer to the profound than the tragic was They believed that all human endeavours looked trivial and laughable to the gods who watched from on high.
Palahniuk has always maintained that his work is drawn from a journalistic investigation of the world around him, as if the dirt and grime were not distorting the image in the mirror he holds up to society but rather part of the reflection itself. Equally malignant counter forces are at play, however, and as the plan for war is derailed, the world fragments into isolated nations determined by race and sexual orientation.Īlthough there is nothing in the novel to rival the gruesome and hilarious swimming pool incident in Haunted, there are still plenty of wonderful gross-out episodes, like an ingenious method of male castration involving poisonous spiders, and moments of grim parody, like an actor reciting the manifesto for a new political regime, believing he is auditioning for a trashy TV show. A large spike in the number of male births prompts leaders to plot WWIII as a way of diverting youth revolt and simultaneously boosting the global economy. Adjustment Day is Palahniuk's first novel since the erotic slapstick of 2014's Beautiful You.
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