title: Smashed!: A Novel
author: Arul Sirpy
description: Sirpy works as a product manager at a leading IT company in Bangalore. He has an engineering degree from CEG, Chennai and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. Apart from reading depressing books and watching depressing movies, his favourite hobbies are shouting at auto drivers and throwing tantrums to the walls. He spends his evenings at the nearest watering hole, where he can be usually found, yelling inconsequentially at football players.
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  _The Smash-Up_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2021 by Ali Benjamin
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of
  Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  RANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin
  Random House LLC.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Names: Benjamin, Ali, author.
  
  Title: The smash-up: a novel / Ali Benjamin.
  
  Description: First edition. | New York: Random House, [2021]
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2020023010 (print) | LCCN 2020023011 (ebook) | ISBN
  9780593229651 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593229668 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593243244
  (international edition)
  
  Classification: LCC PS3602.E66346 S6213 2021 (print) | LCC PS3602.E66346
  (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
  
  