Or later, about herself to Cord: “I probably did like it that you were rich”. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Jackson rotates through chapters seen through the eyes of Sasha, Georgiana and Darley to shift the narrative along, with Sasha’s outsider status affording her leeway to make such cutting insights as the Stocktons “didn’t actually want to change, they wanted to stay exactly as they were”. These sisters are Darley (who also married out, but Malcolm is a high-rolling banker) and Georgiana, the pampered third child and token “do-gooder” who works for a non-profit. Their son Cord has married out to Sasha from Rhode Island (whom his sisters have nicknamed the Gold Digger). Tilda (weaknesses: clothing, wine and hitting to the alley when she played doubles) and Chip (amiable but bland), head the dynasty. Curtis, a fellow one per cent-er, who is appalled that his “next-level rich” status is because his father sells arms, is “either a total jerk or a saint” according to Georgiana in Jackson’s polarised world. Everything in Jackson’s world is black and white, if that term still applies when everyone bar Berta, a maid with a non-speaking role, and Malcolm, a Korean American who has married into the Stockton clan, is firmly WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant). 'Pineapple Street' is the debut novel from Jenny Jackson, vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. But her work lacks the nuance to get anywhere close to that mantle. None of this would matter if Jackson was the next Austen.

Her reported seven-figure advance came from her own employer. Jackson’s debut novel, published Tuesday by Pamela Dorman/Viking, follows three women from a wealthy New York family. But wait, what is this? Jackson may be a debut writer, who bashed this book out in four months in her spare time despite having two tiny children, but she is also vice-president and executive editor at Alfred A Knopf – part of Penguin Random House, which publishes the likes of Kwan, Hornby and Fielding. Jenny Jackson’s Pineapple Street is the latest pick for the Good Morning America book club.

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