“A delicious new Gilded Age family drama… a guilty pleasure that also feels like a sociological text.” - VogueĪ deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clanĭarley, 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.

“The season’s first beach read, a delicious romp of a debut featuring family crises galore.”- The New York Times I was just startled by how, even though I would’ve thought I was more sophisticated, because I’ve seen it from the other side a million times - no, it feels the same exact way when you’re vulnerable.A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

“It’s hilarious what a baby I was when I got those notes. But it is really funny how when someone kills a joke or when someone writes, ‘Oh, I don’t get it,’ it feels so deflating,” she says. And I love my editor, and she gave me the best notes. “I thought that I was going to be such a professional. The next year of the process was for editing, and having spent 20 years working with authors, she assumed she’d be thick-skinned when it came to being the one to receive feedback. Jackson got to work in earnest at the end of 2020 and had a first draft done by April 2021. “And my friend was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is incredible.’ But then she moved in and the house is still full of her husband’s family’s stuff, and so she would just tell me about these hilarious discoveries, like her sister-in-law’s baby teeth in a baggie.”

And so they said to her and her husband and their baby, ‘You guys can just move into the brownstone.

“One of my close friends, her in-laws left Brooklyn Heights in the height of the pandemic and just decided they were never coming back. The parents of the family decide to let Sasha and Cord, their son, move into their Pineapple Street brownstone, an idea that came from a real-life situation one of Jackson’s friends found herself in. Brooklyn Heights is the scene of her debut novel, “Pineapple Street,” out Tuesday, which follows the women of the Stockton family: sisters Darley and Georgina and their brother’s wife, Sasha.

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson