Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick - Jenny Jackson

Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick

By Jenny Jackson

  • Release Date: 2023-03-07
  • Genre: Family Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
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From 1,459 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

  • A Flat And Easy Read

    2
    By Sue_Misnomer
    Here’s the thing about this book: it hits a single note throughout. And it’s often times a weird note. The characters don’t evolve for most of the story, and the little they do seemed sudden, without a true cause, and there was only a little character growth. In the end, I’m not sure who I’d recommend this story to. I guess it would be to someone looking for a simple, unchallenging book. One where the plot points stays mostly the same throughout. And none of that is bad 😁
  • Super cute and thoughtful!

    5
    By shopgirl70
    Perfect beach read. Easy and thoughtful….
  • Perfect beach read

    5
    By Tvashley
    I read this on the beach and plane in one day! The writing is so good and easy and the story was great! Loved it!
  • Incredible read

    5
    By Beatrice5201
    Loved it!!!! Amazing writing + storyline
  • Good not great

    3
    By ashrah82
    A fast read that seems to jump to a happy ending after spending most of the book slogging through conflict.
  • 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.

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