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In 'The Smash-Up,' Author Ali Benjamin Wades Through The Politics In A Marriage

Has any president ever invaded the day-to-day conversations of friends, spouses and family members the way Donald Trump has?
In Ali Benjamin’s “The Smash-Up” (out Feb. 23), that corrosive omnipresence has complicated the marriage of 40-somethings Zo and Ethan Frome. (Not
that Ethan Frome, though Edith Wharton’s novel provides many wellspring elements for this one.)
Author Ali Benjamin (Courtesy Sharona Jacobs)
The novel begins and ends during a political inferno of a week: the September 2018 Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings. Not that any week of the Trump administration was particularly calm, but that one places in the top 10 for temperatures hitting a rolling boil. Benjamin uses this emotional climate as both backdrop and change agent for Ethan and Zo’s faltering marriage.

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Ali Benjamin's new adult novel 'The Smash-Up' hits book stores Feb. 23

WILLIAMSTOWN â Bestselling author Ali Benjamin first read Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome," when she was 15 years old. The novella didn't quite resonate with her at the time, but one day, years later as she was explaining the story to her then pre-teen daughter on a snowy hill during a break from sledding, it hit her like "the weight of a piano falling on my head."
"I realized in the years between high school and now, if I were to be one of [the female characters], I would be the mean, old hag," Benjamin said of the story about a man caught between two extremes in life â an older, angry wife and a younger, beautiful woman full of laughter. "As soon as that hit me, I immediately thought, 'But what if [the wife] had reasons to be mean? What if she was not mean, but frustrated, angry? What if Fascism was on the rise?' All the elements started falling into place."

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