She sits next to, I think it was, a grade school acquaintance named Curtis, who says - notices all the people in the room from Brooklyn Heights or perhaps the Upper East Side, and they're dressed in costumes ridiculing Russian immigrants, he thinks. Georgiana is invited to a Russian dancehall in Brighton Beach.

SIMON: Let me ask you about a party scene and to read from it. give it away, give to foundations, become a philanthropist - is in some ways a little simple and shallow, but it's a great first step towards becoming good.

Her understanding of what money can do - i.e. Over the course of the novel, Georgiana has a moral reckoning, and she begins to think about what her money might be able to do in the world. They are oblivious to much of their privilege or in some ways they feel burdened by their privilege, which is actually even worse. JACKSON: Well, I think at the beginning of the book, none of them are at all striking a balance. SIMON: How do they strike a balance between what we would now call privilege these days and doing something good in the world? Sasha is an artist from Rhode Island who finds herself living in this massive limestone on Pineapple where nobody really wants her. She works at a not-for-profit, and she thinks that this means that she's really doing good in the world. Georgiana is spoiled but doesn't realize she's spoiled. And Georgiana is just this delightful brat. And then second, we have Georgiana, who is the baby of the Stockton family. Darley is the oldest sister, and Darley is a mother of two young children, and she's given up her career in finance to take care of her kids and is grappling with what that means for her. So the novel is the story of three women in the Stockton family. Tell us about the three main characters, because the novel follows the lives of what I'll refer to as the three Stocktons. And that was such a wonderful introduction. 'Pineapple Street' is the debut novel from Jenny Jackson, vice president and executive editor at Alfred A. 'Pineapple Street' - the novel, not the actual street in Brooklyn Heights - is a comedy of manners set among people who live in storied limestone homes, have prenups, set out tablescapes, summer between the Clintons and the Obamas, do good, sometimes conspicuously so, send their children to fancy schools, have their family names on libraries, try to keep up and keep current and be something to someone.

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