Real estate agent, developer, and now: author of a flippant and vulgar, sincere and breathtaking novel about a teen who was dealt a crappy hand in life.

Wareham resident Scott Blagden’s debut young adult novel, “Dear Life, You Suck” was released on March 26, and got rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, which called the book “one of the most wrenching and engaging young-adult books to come along in ages.”

One of his most important critics -- his 16-year-old son, Connor -- was impressed, too, and surprised by how much his dad knew about his generation.

“He, obviously, was a kid at some point,” the Old Rochester Regional High School junior said, but noted: “He really has some pretty relevant things going on in that book.”

It makes you wonder how Blagden managed to spend 30 years in real estate when clearly he was meant to tell stories.

“Dear Life” chronicles the trials and tribulations of 17-year-old Cricket Cherpin, the oldest resident of a Maine boys’ home, which is run by nuns.

Blagden notes: “’Dear Life, You Suck’ contains profanity, fighting, religious irreverence, politically incorrect humor, drinking and drugs. So if you have a problem with the real [expletive] teenagers do, you probably won’t like it.”

Blagden said he accidentally fell into the young adult genre, in part thanks to Connor and his twin sister, Madison.

“I realized that I get along with young adults better than adults,” Blagden said.

But what’s it like when your dad writes a book laced with profanity and drug use… and it’s aimed at you and your peers?

“It’s kind of weird seeing stuff about teenagers... the romance and stuff,”  said Connor.

He said he was a bit concerned about whether he’d like the book, but he said, “I did really like it. I do enjoy reading it.”

Among the profanity, there’s a very likable young man who is trying desperately to figure life out.

Cricket has been at the home since he was a boy, and now has eight months — until he turns 18 — to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. He figures his options are as follows: deal drugs, become an amateur boxer, or commit suicide.

Not exactly a bright future.

The name of the book stems from an assignment, in which the students are supposed to write a letter to someone they’re angry with. Cricket chooses “life.”

“The whole story is about seeing beneath a person’s scars,” explains Blagden.

Blagden wrote three novels from 2005 to 2010, before “Dear Life, You Suck.”

“My first three novels were enthusiastically rejected by everyone in the publishing world,” he said.

While the third novel was “out getting rejected,” Blagden began writing an inner monologue for Cricket Cherpin.

“I was just letting this kid think and say anything,” he said.

Despite thinking that nobody would pick up the book due to the profanity, Blagden received a number of responses.

“All along, I just kept saying, ‘This is never going to get published because of the voice of the character,’” Blagden explained.

But the editorial director of New York-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company told him: “I’m buying this book because of the voice,” he recalled.

Blagden is currently continuing his career in real estate and continuing to write.

“It’s like a rollercoaster,” Blagden said of finally being a published author. “At some points, it’s just surreal.”

“Dear Life, You Suck” is available in stores and online. To order a signed copy, visit www.scottblagden.com.