Pineapple Street / Jenny Jackson.
Available copies
- 0 of 3 copies available at LARL/NWRL Consortium.
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Current holds
13 current holds with 3 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Detroit Lakes Public Library | JAC (Text) | 33500013792882 | New | Checked out | 06/15/2023 |
Fosston Public Library | JAC (Text) | 33500013792890 | New | On holds shelf | - |
Hawley Public Library | JAC (Text) | 33500013792908 | New | Checked out | 06/16/2023 |
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593490693
- ISBN: 059349069X
- ISBN: 9780593654705
- ISBN: 0593654706
- Physical Description: 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | Place of publication from publisher's website. "Good Morning America Book Club Pick" -- book jacket. |
Summary, etc.: | "A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. 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 façade, 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. |
Reviews
Author Notes
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 February #1
This family drama gives readers a look inside the lives of the affluent Stockton family, who reside in a historic brownstone in Brooklyn. Sasha has recently married into the family and just can't seem to navigate the upper-class waters of her new in-laws. Loving Cord has always been easy, but loving his tight-knit family is another story. Cord and his two sisters, Darley and Georgina, have grown up and lived around the fruit-named streets of Brooklyn most of their lives. The family's wealth and status have sheltered the Stocktons for generations and informed many of their habits and perceptions of life; letting an outsider in will prove to be tricky. Each family member's first-person narration offers a glimpse into their thoughts, unique perspectives, and experiences, allowing the reader to examine the same situation through many eyes. Filled with humor, love, the ups and downs of marriage, and tennis whites, this family's story is both endearing and exasperating. Readers will enjoy the author's exploration of both the perks and downsides of generational wealth. Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.
Jenny Jackson is a vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. A graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Publishing Course, she lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family. Pineapple Street is her first novel.
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Subject: | Rich people > Fiction. Social classes > Fiction. Upper class families > Fiction. Marriage > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Novels. |