One can only imagine the dark path life may have led her down had the librarian not allowed a young Jackson back in the very next day. The juvenile Jackson’s shameful offence: “We were eating jellybeans in the stacks, and they said, ‘You have to leave!'” Jackson apologized to her mother, who was seated in the front row, before sharing a dark secret with the audience, “To my deep shame, when I was 11 years old, I was kicked out of this library.”
“When I was in elementary school and middle school, we didn’t have the internet, and so I spent a lot of time with the Encyclopedia Britannicas on that shelf over there.” “I grew up over on Wainwright Street, and I have spent so much time in this library,” Jackson said. She also shared memories of growing up here. On Saturday, Jackson discussed the novel and took questions from a packed crowd of old friends and new admirers at the public library. In planning the tour, Jackson made sure to include her hometown, Ipswich, as one of the destinations. Since the release of her novel, Jackson has been on a whirlwind tour that has included stops at numerous bookstores, appearances on podcasts, and an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America ( Pineapple Street was chosen for GMA’s Book Club). Whether you’re rich - or of the sentiment that we should “eat the rich” - the soulful satire of Pineapple Street is sure to confuse, and at times indulge, your sense of moral and social hierarchy.
It’s the most quoted line in the predominantly positive reviews of Pineapple Street (an “immortal line” according to Celia McGee of the New York Times), and a line which perfectly sets the stage for the comedic, page-turning romp that follows. Only three pages into the novel, we see Georgiana Stockton, dressed in her tennis whites, crying out, “Oh no! I left my Cartier bracelet in Lena’s BMW and she’s leaving soon for her grandmother’s house in Southhampton!” Scott Fitzgerald had written the screenplay for a 2023 remake of the movie Clueless, we might encounter similar characters and themes. IPSWICH - In her New York Times bestselling debut novel, Pineapple Street, Ipswich native Jenny Jackson offers us a glimpse behind the Brooklyn brownstone façade of the obnoxiously rich Stockton family.
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