This Beautiful Life

This novel is about a family in New York City.  They recently relocated to NYC and thanks to the dad's job at a university, they are enjoying (?) the benefit of public schools and moving in a higher economic class of people than they have ever before.  The 15 year old boy receives an unsolicited, x-rated video from a 13 year old girl and the entire family is in turmoil in various ways.

There is so much that the author got right - the exhaustion of being a parent, the speed at which everything can derail, the sense of wanting to save your child and do anything for them, and the sense of losing yourself as a person when you parent.

The style was loose and the language was casual, but grammatically correct and sophisticated.  It is one of the best written novels I have read in this way.  It was almost Catcher in the Rye-like in that way.