Pineapple Street
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Jenny Jackson
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one rich New York clan “Transporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times.” —J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Friends and Strangers “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 NestDarley, the eldest daughter in the closely-tied, carefully-guarded, old money Stockton family, made the classic feminine mistake and gave up her job for her children before she realized she’d sacrificed more of herself than she intended; Sasha married into the Stocktons, and finds herself the outsider looking into the fishbowl, wondering if she will ever understand their ways; and Georgianna, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t (and really shouldn’t) have, and must confront the 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 (and a few appalling ones!), it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots and everything in between, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight of a read.
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Author
Jenny Jackson
Pages
320
Publisher
National Geographic Books
Published Date
2023-03-07
ISBN
0735244413 9780735244412
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"This book really missed the mark for me. While it hooked me from the start and had very strong character development, I did not find one of the characters likable. I hoped that it would turn around and serve as a critique on the dangers and issues with wealth and living in a bubble of wealthy people. However, rather than being a critique, Jackson almost seemed to glorify the Stockton's lifestyle, despite the countless issues that it presented throughout the book. I was left with such a bitter taste in my mouth"
"Very readable book. Hard to put down with great character development. Personally, I may not subscribe to some of the low level political messages that thread throughout this book I truly enjoyed it. I have spent several years teaching overseas and working in nonprofits and I appreciated that aspect of the book!"
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Chris Brown
"This book gives great insight into the lives of the 1% who are wealthy families with generational wealth. I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy this book, however, it was far better than I thought it would be. The author gave great insight into the 1% and how some of them live their lives and their “challenges” of decisions with regard their friendships and how they are easily taken advantage of because people figure “they’re just rich and they are ripe for the picking” when it comes to people of lesser means feeling they can victimize wealthy/rich people and that they might be entitled to it because of “social inequities”. I’m definitely not a 1%-er but I found the book educational. "
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Marie J Ervin
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Venieta Cox
"Somehow this book seemed to incorporate such a range of obscure details from my life while taking me into lives completely different from my own. A very nice light read if you want to feel like you’re finally hearing the full story about people you’ve known and reshaping how you see them. The plot points felt scattered until things wove together more in the end, but I still enjoyed the individual storylines so that wasn’t a huge negative.
Getting into some spoilers, I really liked how each character had different but related moments of realization for how they treated the people around them and addressed their hypocrisies by the end. For example, Sasha coming full circle by realizing she treated Mullin as an outsider like how her in-laws treated her really helped weave the story to a satisfying conclusion.
I loved Darley as a character (practical, tries to be self aware, great relationship with her husband) and liked that she came to her senses about how her family treated Sasha on her own. I also liked that she still overlooked how she treated her husband’s position in the family until he confronted her about it, which gave her a good balance of how people realistically learn and grow. The one part I disliked about her ending was how her point of view often mentioned her regret for not continuing to work, but other than that there was no build up into her going back to her career. Instead, the fact that she started again was subtly slipped into the epilogue.
Georgiana’s character was interesting with how she saw her self and the type of person she wanted to be compared to how she made characters like Sasha feel. I liked her pivot into philanthropy, but for the themes of inclusion and family her resolution felt like something she fell into rather than worked on.
Overall, Pineapple Street was a great book to kick off my summer!"
"4.5 ⭐️’s. Thank you to @PRHaudio for my complimentary audiobook. <br/><br/>I was able to listen to this book in one sitting as it was super fast paced. It was told from the two daughters, from an extremely rich wealthy family, and the new daughter in law, whom was raised middle class. <br/><br/>This wasn’t as pretentious as most of the books you read about the uber rich and it showed that they had flawed views on reality from growing up wealthy. It was a realistic take (besides the money) on the flaws of a family and at the end of the day, family is family no matter what."