Pineapple Street: A Novel
Jenny Jackson
“A vibrant & hilarious debut…Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining & 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, & 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 & 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, & finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; & Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have, & 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 & have-nots, & the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.
Jenny Jackson is a Vice President & Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf. A graduate of Williams College & the Columbia Publishing Course, she lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family. Pineapple Street is her first novel.