Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
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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.
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. Read more
Editor's Take
Pineapple Street has drawn warm praise from book reviewers for its sharp, elegant look at wealth, family, and the social rules of Brooklyn high society. Bookreporter calls it an engaging and absorbing read with a supremely satisfying conclusion, while The New York Times describes it as a novel that tours a world readers may not envy by the end. Book Marks highlights the book’s smart, sharply observed style, and Goodreads reviewers praise its witty, escapist tone.
Across review sites, readers respond to the novel’s mix of family drama, wealthy dysfunction, and well-observed characters. Book Marks notes that critics admire its comedy of manners and social detail, though some say its privileged characters can be exasperating. Goodreads reviewers praise the book as addictive and sparkling, while a few readers there felt the plot moved slowly or the characters were unlikable.
For shoppers who enjoy character-driven fiction about class, inheritance, and marriage, Pineapple Street is widely described as polished, witty, and easy to recommend to book clubs.
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Specifications
| Genre | Fiction |
| Illustrated | No |
Product Details
| ASIN | B0B3HPSFJ7 |
| Publisher | Pamela Dorman Books |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Publication date | March 7, 2023 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 4.3 MB |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 315 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0593490709 |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,197 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #47 in Sibling Fiction #78 in Romance Literary Fiction #113 in Women's Literary Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (30,779) |
