Pineapple Street

A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one rich New York clan

“Transporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times.” —J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Friends and Strangers

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Praise for Pineapple Street:

“I loved Pineapple Street. The characters are complex and engaging and their stories bring a particular slice of New York magically alive. So wise, emotionally honest, and such fun!”
—Helen Fielding, #1 bestselling author of Bridget Jones’s Dairy

“I stayed up until five in the morning devouring Pineapple Street. Nothing beats a story told this well and rendered with such lovingly comic precision. The teeth! The bread bowl! Little Debbie! I could not stop laughing at this hilarious insider’s view of Brooklyn Heights WASPs. Truly the smartest and most deliciously fun novel I’ve read in ages.”
—Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians

“Pineapple Street is that rarest of gifts–a novel you don’t want to put down for anything. Transporting and laugh-out-loud funny, this intergenerational story is a perfect tale for our times.”
—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Friends and Strangers

“In this vibrant and hilarious debut, Jenny Jackson has taken a familiar tale—siblings, family money, competing interests—and given it fresh life. What binds the book together so wonderfully is Jackson’s keen understanding of the beauty and difficulty of belonging, of how our desires can clash with our inherited narrative and what happens to the people we love when we need to rewrite the story. Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth.”
—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company
 
“Set in the windy, sun-dappled streets of Brooklyn Heights, Pineapple Street is a portrait of a NY family strait-jacketed by their own wealth that is at once searing, hilarious and poignant.”
—Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace

“Full of witty and caustic observations about a privileged class of New Yorkers, Pineapple Street is a sharp and juicy satire.”
—Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid

“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 of delicious details, Jackson lets us into an outrageous world of generational wealth and privilege through the eyes of three fallible yet lovable women navigating the complexities of life on the inside. If I could have put this novel on a drip straight into my veins, I would have!”
—Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
 
“If you’re in search of the fiction trifecta—a captivating story that’s masterfully constructed, vividly peopled, and crisply written—look no further. 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.”
—Adrienne Brodeur, bestselling author of Wild Game
 
“Jenny Jackson has written a lovely, absorbing, acutely observed novel about class, money and love. These are the themes of Henry James and Jane Austen, but they are observed with a fresh eye and a contemporary voice. Who wouldn’t want to read Pineapple Street?”
—Nick Hornby, bestselling author of Just Like You

“Pineapple Street might be the Edith Wharton novel for our times. This fresh take on how an elite New York family deals with the sudden intrusion of an outsider is wise, funny, tender, and utterly relatable. I cried at the end, in the best way.”
—Susie Yang, author of White Ivy

“Prepare to lose an afternoon to the season’s first beach read, a delicious romp of a debut featuring family crises galore.”
—The New York Times

“Smart and clever, minutely observed and packed with one-liners. . . . [An] entertaining debut novel.”
—The Guardian

“Smart and sharply observed, peppered with small gems. . .  . [Pineapple Street is a] sparkling debut novel.”
—The Washington Post

“[An] entertaining sojourn into the lives of the one percent.”
—Chatelaine

“[A] delicious new Gilded Age family drama. . . . [and a] lighthearted book that captures a slice of New York society.”
—Vogue

“[A] witty, easy-to-devour story of wealth and love’s never-ending war in the modern age.”
—Elle

“Pineapple Street stands on its own as a smart comedy of manners.”
—NPR

“[An] engaging début novel.”
—The New Yorker

“Marvellous—clever, funny and brilliantly well observed.”
—The Times (UK)

“[Jenny Jackson] penned an intensely readable, witty debut novel …. in one of the most compulsive pageturners of the year.”
—The Independent (UK)

“Her book Pineapple Street—a sparkling social comedy about the prenups, tablescapes, real-estate deals and tennis partnerships of the uber-rich Stockton family—is the literary equivalent of a hole in one.”
—Daily Mail (UK)

“A juicy treat.”
—Yahoo! Movies (UK)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.US