Pineapple Street - Jenny Jackson

Pineapple Street

By Jenny Jackson

  • Release Date: 2023-03-07
  • Genre: Family Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
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From 1,170 Ratings

Description

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

“A vibrant and hilarious debut…Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest

“A delicious new Gilded Age family drama… a guilty pleasure that also feels like a sociological text.” —Vogue

A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be. 

Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.

Reviews

  • So wonderful!

    5
    By allison nolagirl
    Deep meaning with light hearted air! Truly fab!
  • Summer Read

    5
    By lromzz
    This book was the perfect summer read! The characters were engrossing though outrageous at times and the plot kept me entertained. I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next book from this author.
  • Eye roll inducing

    3
    By C-mach
    This was an easy read but I didn’t enjoy it. The characters were one dimensional and it was very cliché.
  • Pass

    1
    By SharkAttackz
    Do not spend money on this waste of time book. Boring and pointless
  • Taken nowhere

    2
    By Hillary in Newburyport
    Didn’t care for any of the characters, therefore it brought me nowhere.
  • Review Good

    5
    By r you I if g CC CC
    looks good ❤️
  • Just okay.

    3
    By LIlilinaakkk
    Just okay.
  • Beautiful Self Discovery

    4
    By Cheated by Steph
    The whole story was an inside look at the dynamics of a generationally old monied family. There really wasn’t a plot except that circumstances caused several characters to reflect on who they are and why they are that way. Once they did that, the book was simply over. I loved the characters and hoped for more, but once they each figured out what their own hang up was, they were a new person. You didn’t see their relationships grow after that. There could have been so much more.
  • Pineapple street. . . Blah blah blah

    1
    By forcedreader
    Just awful and I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Babbling without an actual story. If I could give zero stars that would be my rating.
  • A sweet read

    4
    By youcallmesomething
    Funny and witty and serious at the same time.