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It is, pure and simple, a treasure." - Chris Bohjalian

One word of advice: clear your calendar before you start reading. I can't recall the last time I read a novel that was both this heartwarming and this hilarious. It's smart and surprising and, yes, scrumptious. "I'm not sure which is bigger: Pineapple Street's heart or its humor. If I could have put this novel on a drip straight into my veins, I would have!" - Ashley Audrain 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. "A delight to read from start to finish, Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street is a cancel-all-plans kind of book. messy, hilarious and ultimately relatable family story." - Cristina Alger Her observations about family, money, class, and love are spot on.

Her characters are deliciously flawed and, at the same time, loveable and compelling. Jackson's writing brims with wit and warmth. 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. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. 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 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.