Pineapple Street
By Jenny Jackson
301 pages
What’s it about?
The Stockton family has happily lived in Brooklyn Heights on Pineapple Street for as long as they can remember. Chip and Tilda belong to a world of generational wealth and privilege- and their three adult children have known no other life. As Darley, Cord, and Georgianna age they must come to terms with their own attitudes about wealth- and the place it holds in their lives.What did it make me think about?
What a world…. This book centers around a level of wealth that most of us will never know. It also highlights the Northeast and NYC which is quite a small world it seems. Fascinating!Should I read it?
This was a fun novel about an interesting new phenomenon. What happens when the next generation does not see inherited wealth as a gift to maintain. What if instead they want to give away the fortune that generations have passed down? This story could have been preachy (or just made most readers gag) but the author deftly handles the material, and with kid gloves actually makes us see the humanity in the Stocktons. I myself was not a huge fan at first, but it was such an easy read I kept going. I am glad I did. My related books are all books that made me think about a topic in a different way- much like Pineapple Street. Quote- “Darley had noticed something about people with money: they stuck together. Not because they were intrinsically shallow or materialistic or snobbish, though of course those things could very well be true, but it was because when they were together, they didn’t have to worry about the differences their money meant in their lives. “What’s it about?
The Stockton family has happily lived in Brooklyn Heights on Pineapple Street for as long as they can remember. Chip and Tilda belong to a world of generational wealth and privilege- and their three adult children have known no other life. As Darley, Cord, and Georgianna age they must come to terms with their own attitudes about wealth- and the place it holds in their lives.
What did it make me think about?
What a world…. This book centers around a level of wealth that most of us will never know. It also highlights the Northeast and NYC which is quite a small world it seems. Fascinating!
Should I read it?
This was a fun novel about an interesting new phenomenon. What happens when the next generation does not see inherited wealth as a gift to maintain. What if instead they want to give away the fortune that generations have passed down? This story could have been preachy (or just made most readers gag) but the author deftly handles the material, and with kid gloves actually makes us see the humanity in the Stocktons. I myself was not a huge fan at first, but it was such an easy read I kept going. I am glad I did. My related books are all books that made me think about a topic in a different way- much like Pineapple Street.
Quote-
“Darley had noticed something about people with money: they stuck together. Not because they were intrinsically shallow or materialistic or snobbish, though of course those things could very well be true, but it was because when they were together, they didn’t have to worry about the differences their money meant in their lives. “
