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BOOK CLUB: Pineapple Street

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The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism

Jenny Jackson lived on Pineapple Street and a lot of the like funny little stories within the book are from real life scenarios. Her kids were obsessed with dead pigeons and apparently used to carry them around parks. She said that the actual book was partially inspired by an article that she read in the New York Times called The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism, which kind of mirrors the Curtis McCoy article in the book. A journal asked her whether she knew that when she wrote this, it was going to be a hit.

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