Pineapple Street
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3.3 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away.
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully-guarded Stockton family, has never had to worry about money. Darley followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood, sacrificing more of herself than she ever intended. 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. And Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can't (and really shouldn't) have, and must confront the kind of person she wants to be.
Shot through with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York's one per centers - glittering parties, weekend homes and hungover brunches - Pineapple Street is a scintillating, escapist novel that sparkles with wit and wry humour. Full of recognisable, loveable if fallible characters (and a few appalling ones!), it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family, the miles between the haves and have-nots and everything in between.
© Jenny Jackson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The Stocktons are hardly a typical family: this Brooklyn-based real-estate dynasty has the kind of wealth unthinkable to most. It would certainly have been unthinkable to Sasha, before she married into it. But as we get to know her and her two sisters-in-law, Darley and Georgiana—Pineapple Street switches between the viewpoints of these very different women—we begin to understand them, even as they struggle to understand each other and sometimes themselves. This witty family drama is a nuanced look at how class can impact relationships (the sisters’ suspicious treatment of Sasha, who grew up less well-off than they did, is sometimes flat out shocking) as well as what it is to be a part of a family while forging your own (often turbulent) romantic and professional life.
