![]() ![]() Blue bloods to their very core, they would never open discuss something as vulgar as money thanks to trust funds and smart real estate, they know they will never be poor. It’s a juicy depiction of an old-money WASP-y family living in a corner of Brooklyn where rich WASP-y families have always lived. “Pineapple Street” in short is a comedy of manners (Jackson has been compared to Edith Wharton). Sasha, the wife of Cord, the oldest brother, is regarded as an outsider and mocked as a “gold digger” because she was raised middle-class in Rhode Island and is therefore NOKD (or Not-Our-Kind-Dear). Her younger sister Georgiana has a crush on her handsome boss at the not-for-profit where they work but is depressed because he doesn’t seem to notice her. Tilda’s daughter Darly, an ex-Goldman banker, gave up her lucrative career to raise a family. For instance, Tilda Stockton, the matriarch of a Brooklyn Heights family from prestigious Pineapple Street, worries if she will have the right costume for her next themed party. But they are strictly of the first-world variety. ![]() Hemingway was said to have responded, “Yes, they have more money.”īesides money, the rich, according to Jenny Jackson’s likable new novel “Pineapple Street,” also have problems. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald reportedly told Ernest Hemingway. “The rich are different from you and me,” F. ![]()
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