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Jenny Jackson is a vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. A graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Publishing Course, Jenny lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family. Pineapple Street is her first novel.
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Customers find the writing quality very well written and enjoyable. They also describe the tone as funny in places and witty in others. Opinions are mixed on the characters, with some finding them well-developed and others saying they didn't really develop. Readers also have mixed feelings about the plot, with others finding it unique and interesting, while others say it's predictable and slow.
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Customers find the book enjoyable, interesting, and a great escape. They also say the plot is not drama-filled.
"This was a fun and easy read with good life lessons of family, meaning, and money, a nice complete story" Read more
"It’s a good book , but not one that is super engaging. It was one that was entertaining enough to keep reading and one that I could put down." Read more
"...Couldn’t quite figure out how it would wrap, but it was satisfying enough ." Read more
"I could not put the book down!! It was not boring . The characters in the story were excellent. This book was well written...." Read more
Customers find the writing quality of the book very well written and insightful. They also say the characterizations are excellent.
"...The characters in the story were excellent. This book was well written . It truly does make a family. It was a very enjoyable read...." Read more
" Light and enjoyable read , but the characters did not really develop. My favorite characters were Tilda and Sasha because they were true to themselves." Read more
"It is a very light read . I didn’t think it offered much drama or suspense." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the plot. Some find the characters wonderful, compelling, and entertaining. They also describe the family drama as thought-provoking, and the ending as pleasantly upbeat. However, others feel the plot is lacking and repetitive.
"This was a fun and easy read with good life lessons of family , meaning, and money, a nice complete story" Read more
"It’s a good book, but not one that is super engaging . It was one that was entertaining enough to keep reading and one that I could put down." Read more
" Interesting enough story of a family with means and misunderstandings aplenty. Likable characters. Some surprises...." Read more
"...However, it was kind of like a more boring version of Jerry Seinfeld - relatively shallow people moving along without any sort of plot...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the characters in the book. Some find them well-developed, while others say they were never fully developed.
"... Likable characters . Some surprises. Couldn’t quite figure out how it would wrap, but it was satisfying enough." Read more
"Light and enjoyable read, but the characters did not really develop . My favorite characters were Tilda and Sasha because they were true to themselves." Read more
"I could not put the book down!! It was not boring. The characters in the story were excellent . This book was well written...." Read more
"...The plot is basic, but it’s character-driven , and the novel’s themes of social problems, elitism and nepotism are very timely...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the tone. Some find the writing catchy, funny, witty, and charming. They also say it brings smiles and feelings. However, others find the book patronizing, insightful, and lacking in insight. They mention that the book has laughable grammatical errors and liberal misguidance.
"This book opens with a bang-- strong satire , and you think you're going to have an arch, withering look at the uber-rich in Brooklyn, an updated..." Read more
"...Also I never thought it was funny , I felt sorry for almost all the characters." Read more
" Brimming full of dark humor , “Pineapple Street” is a social satire of New York’s 1 Percent..." Read more
"Expected more based on the reviews in the NYT. Not as clever or entertaining as I had hoped when I paid full price for this book a few months ago...." Read more
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"Pineapple Street" has more in common with a backward-gazing Gilded Age novel like John P. Marquand's 1937 blockbuster "The Late George Apley" than with, say, a Gilded Age novel written ...
Jenny Jackson. 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 ...
PINEAPPLE STREET. by Jenny Jackson ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 7, 2023. A remarkably enjoyable visit with the annoying one percent, as close to crazy rich WASPs as WASPs can get. Money makes the world go round, particularly the world of an elite Brooklyn family. "On good days, Sasha could acknowledge how incredibly lucky she was to live in her ...
Book review: Pineapple Street is a witty debut about old money with a hasty ending Jenny Jackson's debut novel is a breezy, fun read that is a humorous and sharp take about the trappings of ...
That last can be the hardest of all. "Pineapple Street" is the debut novel from Jenny Jackson, vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. She joins us now from New York. Thanks so ...
Jenny Jackson's debut novel is about siblings and their in-laws in a well-to-do Brooklyn family. 4 min. (Pamela Dorman) Review by Susan Coll. March 7, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. There are the rich ...
"Pineapple Street" had the potential of throwing the same emotional obstacle course her way. J. Courtney Sullivan, whose first novel, "Commencement," began her string of best sellers with ...
Pineapple Street. by Jenny Jackson. Publication Date: March 12, 2024. Genres: Fiction, Women's Fiction. Paperback: 320 pages. Publisher: Penguin Books. ISBN-10: 0593490711. ISBN-13: 9780593490716. A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.
I enjoy reading about family and the drama that families engage in behind closed doors, and Pineapple Street was a perfect combination of drama and extravagance. After I finished the book, I looked at some reviews, which I do sometimes, just to see what others thought of it while I process my own thoughts.
Read Full Review >>. Positive Christobel Kent, The Guardian (UK) Smart and clever, minutely observed and packed with one-liners, Pineapple Street is a more complicated read than it looks. But while Jackson regularly checks her characters' privilege, The Bonfire of the Vanities this is decidedly not.
book review: Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson. Overview: The Stockton family has long called the fruit streets of Brooklyn home, and even as their children grew up and moved out, they stayed nearby. Pineapple Street looks at a period in the wealthy family's life from three distinct perspectives.
But the shock of social recognition — the moment when a good writer transforms an everyday detail about cheese cubes into an observation about the casual cruelties of class hierarchy — remains as jolting as getting or throwing a pie in the face. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson has an overall rating of Positive based on 7 book reviews.
Pineapple Street. by Jenny Jackson. 1. The Stockton family is both a typical and extremely unusual American family. Are there ways in which you relate to them, and others in which you find them entirely unrelatable? 2. The novel is set in the small neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, offering historical, architectural and cultural details about ...
"Pineapple Street might be the Edith Wharton novel for our times…Wise, funny, tender, and utterly relatable." —Susie Yang, New York Times bestselling author of White Ivy "A delight to read from start to finish, Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street is a cancel-all-plans kind of book. Utterly addicting, big-hearted and affecting, and full ...
Book Review. Jenny Jackson's 'Pineapple Street' explores the changing landscape of New York's mega-rich By Suzanne Perez. Published March 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM CDT Listen • 1:40 ...
When it came out in 1983, Nora Ephron's comic novel became an instant bestseller. Now newly released, Heartburn pairs well with Jenny Jackson's smart comedy of manners, Pineapple Street.
Jenny Jackson's "Pineapple Street," is pure reading pleasure, hilarious, big-hearted, and full of emotional truths. It's the kind of novel you hope will never end.". "Jenny Jackson has written a lovely, absorbing, acutely observed novel about class, money and love.
Editorial Reviews. Praise for Pineapple Street: "A delicious new Gilded Age family drama—almost a satire—set in the leafy enclaves of Brooklyn Heights....A lighthearted book that captures a slice of New York society, a guilty pleasure that also feels like a sociological text, punctuated with very particular references to restaurants, preschools, nightclubs, and other pillars of urban ...
This is the type of book that is meant to be devoured, and you'll walk away from it feeling pretty good about yourself. Sometimes, that's all that you need from a book, so if that cover is enticing, you should know that this is a novel that is well worth your time. Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street will be published by Viking on March 7, 2023.
From Succession to hit book Pineapple Street - the stories that reveal the lives of the super-rich. (Credit: HBO) A new wave of books is getting inside the intriguing inner sanctums of the mega ...
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An Amazon Best Book of March 2023: Brooklyn is known for its storied brownstones, and perhaps none are more famous than the stately homes on the "fruit streets." Every time I walk by, I fantasize about the lives of the people who are lucky enough to reside there—and now I have a much more vivid picture, thanks to Jenny Jackson's delightful novel Pineapple Street, about several ...
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 ...