Boring, boring, and most boring is all I can say about "This Beautiful Life" by Helen Schulman. Just could not get my mind wrapped around this story. Middle aged couple with a 15 year old son and a 6 year old Chinese adopted daughter. Son gets caught up in a scandal when a 13 year old girl sends him a very pornagraphic video via email and he in turn forwards it to his friend and needless to say, it is around the world in days. He gets expelled and the parents are trying to get him through this tough time. They end up fighting and even though the son is returned to school in just a couple weeks, his life is in shambles. The mother can't handle it and the father is just concerned with being the big deal bread winner. I won't even go into what the young daughter got into when she discovered her mother's computer with the infamous video on it. Guess I couldn't get lucky with all my recent purchases.
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