Look inside

Pineapple Street

3.6(345)
Language
English
Not availableFree shipping
Buy Now

About the book

A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

Chosen as a best book of the year by The New York Times | Time | NPR | USA Today | Elle | Harper’s Bazaar | Town & Country | Vogue | BBC | POPSUGAR | Goodreads | theSkimm

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

“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.

Editions (7)

ISBN9780593676714
PublisherRandom House
Publication Date03/28/23
Pages402

Reviews & Ratings

345 ratings

71 reviews

3.6

Tap to filter

  • bookup
    bookup

    313 Followers

    3.0

    A season of ‘Real Housewives’ dressed in literary clothing 🍍

    This book took me ages to get into. I was misled by the expectation of an entertaining “rich people behaving badly“ family drama, but it turned out to be more of a season of ‘Real Housewives‘ dressed in literary clothing. I restarted it several times, but the beginning was tedious and I only managed to finish it when I came down with a summer flu and was off work for a full week. It’s light, it’s nicely written, it’s a well-observed genre piece on the WASPy one-percenters of New York City. However, I missed a real plotline and I couldn’t connect with most of the characters–I only really enjoyed Georgiana. There was a glimmer of hope for Darley and Sasha to undergo some character development too, but sady, no. The book also touched on a few socio-cultural issues, but never explored them in depth. I’m aware it’s loaded with interpretation an subliminal messages between the lines, but ultimately, it felt like the result of fairly rich white people writing about absurdly rich white people. And likely read mostly by that same group. Lovely.

    Jul 16, 2025

  • elarama
    elarama

    215 Followers

    4.0

    Überraschend gut

    Ich hab dieses Buch ohne Erwartungen begonnen und mich irgendwie gleich so darin festgelesen, dass ich total in der Welt der Familie Stockton abgetaucht bin. Geschrieben ist die Geschichte aus der Sicht der beiden Töchter und ihrer Schwägerin. Und mit jedem Abschnitt guckt man immer mehr hinter die glänzende Fassade und ins Innenleben der Protagonisten. Auch wenn einiges der Probleme der Familie natürlich eher aus ihrem Luxusleben resultiert, sind andere Momente wunderbar nachvollziehbar. Ein schöner Roman. Und zum Abschluss noch ein Zitat, dass mir besonders im Kopf geblieben ist und ich sehr gefühlt habe 😅: „Sie hatte einmal gelesen, dass Ameisen täglich zweihundert kurze Nickerchen machen, und das schien ihr jetzt enorm reizvoll. Sie war einfach erschöpft.“

    Oct 21, 2024

  • 3.0

    Pineapple Street hat mich ganz gut unterhalten. Jenny Jacksons Schreibstil ist flüssig und leicht zu lesen. Die Kapitel sind mit ca. 20 Seiten recht lang, aber in sich nochmal mehrfach unterteilt. Für mich blieb die Geschichte eher oberflächlich und ich würde sie daher zur Unterhaltung empfehlen. Wer sich näher mit den angesprochenen gesellschaftskritischen Themen auseinandersetzen möchte, sollte zu einem anderen Buch greifen.

    Apr 1, 2025

3 of 71 reviews

SocialReads

Page-based comments

Page 00%
kapitelkoenigin
kapitelkoeniginFeb 7, 2025

Habe tapfer 2 Stunden durchgehalten und nun endgültig abgebrochen… Sehr oberflächliches, triviales unschönes Buch…

Page 5013%

1 comment hidden

Page 16844%

1 comment hidden

Page 26970%

1 comment hidden

3 more SocialReads comments in the app, sorted by your current progress.

Reading is better with the READO app.

Discover books, track progress, read together.

Library

Keep track