#Pineapple Street

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Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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Title: Pineapple Street | Author: Jenny Jackson | Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books (2023)

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Pineapple Street

By Jenny Jackson.

Design by Ceara Elliot.

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When Poppy turned one, Darley and Malcolm threw her a party at the Casino. For Malcolm's family, the first birthday, the dog, was basically a bigger deal than their wedding. The Kims insisted on paying for the entire thing, hiring caterers and buying Poppy a beautiful traditional Korean outfit, red silk with light green sleeves. They served steak and salmon, they passed the baby around for everyone to hold, and they put her on a big blanket in the middle of the room for the doljabi. The doljabi was a tradition meant to symbolize the child's personality. Typically, one would lay out an array of objects, including thread, a pencil or book, and money, illustrating longevity, intelligence, and wealth, Whichever item the child crawled to would represent their projects. For fun, they also laid out a tennis racket, a toy airplane, a test tube, and a calculator. When Poppy crawled toward the test tube, Malcolm's father cheered- another chemist in the family! The cheering startled Poppy and she burst into tears, and Darley ran to pick her up. They tried again, but she just sat there and chewed on her sleeve. They scooted the tennis racket closer, zoomed the toy airplane around her head, waved the calculator to get her attention, but she was uninterested. They finally gave up and changed Poppy back into her smocked dress before giving her a piece of cake. Darley, six months pregnant and starving all the time, ate her own and then her daughter's and hoped nobody was thinking what she was: Oh, Poppy is going to take after mother and do nothing.

-Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson

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If you read and enjoyed "Pineapple Street" by Jenny Jackson, you might like "All Adults Here" by Emma Straub.

Pineapple Street: "A 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. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York and full of recognizable if fallible characters, 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."

All Adults Here: "A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family--as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes."

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Pineapple Street Studios (Audacy)

Marina is a Senior Audio Engineer at Pineapple Street Studios. PINEAPPLE WEBSITE

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I loved this book so much! It was wonderful. It’s about a wealthy family, like we’re talking 1% here. The children are grown, and they all live near each other in this small affluent area of streets named after fruit in NYC. Even though they’re all super rich, the kids are educated and work and are good people. In this book, they grow and learn and become better people. Georgiana, the youngest, works at a non profit and falls in love. Darley figures out what she wants to do with her education, and strengthens her marriage. Cord is a newlywed, and has to figure out how to help his new wife become part of the family. Sasha, his bride, has to figure that out too. There’s a lot more to all that, but spoilers, sweetie.

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If you like books about rich WASPs who drink and snort coke all day, this one is for you.

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Books I bought but never finish because they suck (or they are just not for me), at least in the beginning:

One hundred years of solitude— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Game of thrones— George R.R. Martin

The Gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue— Mackenzi Lee

Friends and strangers— J. Courtney Sullivan

Pineapple street— Jenny Jackson

Gone girl—Gillian Flynn

Toradora!— Yuyuko Takemiya

The night watchman— Louise Erdrich

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REVIEW

PINEAPPLE STREET by Jenny Jackson at The Reading Cafe:

‘a thought provoking and intense, reflective commentary of the uber-rich;‘

https://www.thereadingcafe.com/pineapple-street-by-jenny-jackson-a-review/

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Fresh Fruit Street Vendor (x)

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Conch Street painting from Jellyfish Jam.

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Pizzaman Freddy 🍕 Inspired by a doodle a friend made for me.

Bonus (inspired by this):

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