Pineapple Street : a novel / Jenny Jackson.
"Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm, a first generation Korean American with a lucrative job in banking. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated from Brown and proud to think of herself as a "do-gooder," has enough money from her trust that she's able to work for a pittance at a not-for-profit, where she has started a secret love affair with a senior colleague. But when a scandal derails Malcolm's career, leaving Darley financially in the lurch, when Sasha glimpses the less-than-attractive attributes beneath the Stockton brood's carefully-guarded facade, and when Georgiana discovers her boyfriend is married and still in love with his wife, they must all come to terms with what money can't buy--the bonds of love that can make and unmake a family. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York and full of recognizable if fallible characters (and a couple of appalling ones!), it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family, about the haves and have-nots and the nuances in between, and the insanity of first love--Pineapple Street is a scintillating, wryly comic novel of race, class, wealth and privilege in an age that disdains all of it."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735244412 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 304 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Viking, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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Subject: | Rich people > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Social classes > Fiction. Upper class families > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one rich New York clan
âTransporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times.â âJ. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Friends and Strangers
âA vibrant and hilarious debut…Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth.â âCynthia DâAprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest
Darley, 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 sheâd 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 canât (and really shouldnât) have, and must confront the kind of person she wants to be.
Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New Yorkâs 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!), itâs about the peculiar unknowability of someone elseâs family, the miles between the haves and have-nots and everything in between, and the insanity of first loveâall wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight of a read.