![]() When she was younger, Jackson had wanted to be a writer, but once she got started in publishing as an editor, “I just felt like I really had found my dream job and my calling,” she says. ![]() “And my friend was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is incredible.’ But then she moved in and the house is still full of her husband’s family’s stuff, and so she would just tell me about these hilarious discoveries, like her sister-in-law’s baby teeth in a baggie.” And so they said to her and her husband and their baby, ‘You guys can just move into the brownstone. “One of my close friends, her in-laws left Brooklyn Heights in the height of the pandemic and just decided they were never coming back. ![]() The parents of the family decide to let Sasha and Cord, their son, move into their Pineapple Street brownstone, an idea that came from a real-life situation one of Jackson’s friends found herself in. “We never got on the subway, we never got in a car, and so I was feeling both longing for a social life, but also just feeling really interested in my neighbors and interested in what was going on.”īrooklyn Heights is the scene of her debut novel, “Pineapple Street,” out Tuesday, which follows the women of the Stockton family: sisters Darley and Georgina and their brother’s wife, Sasha. ![]() “Brooklyn Heights just became my entire world,” she says over the phone last week. ![]()
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