The Smash-Up - Ali Benjamin
She read; she recommended that he read
After 9/11, Ethan, co founder of a successful media firm who has sold his share of the business and Zo, a documentary filmmaker, escape from Brooklyn to rural Massachusetts. Here they start a new life with their challenging ADHD daughter, Alex. It is now 2018, and Zo has banded together with fellow female resisters after the shocking election of 2016, while Ethan is questioning his life and Alex is on the verge of being kicked out of her very expensive private school. As the country seems to spiral out of control, so does their life together in this modern take on the classic novel, Ethan Frome.
I really liked this book. I felt the author accurately captured and portrayed the time and the feelings of many. Her thoughts on aging, the world we live in and scary revelations about what social media is doing to us are perception and provocative, as is her question about what kind of world is being left for the next generation. The book begins with the question, “what happened?” and Ali Benjamin does a good job in showing how we got to where we are today and what has become of our society.
*****
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