Summary

At the outset of Pineapple Street, in the Prelude, Curtis McCoy was having coffee at Joe Coffee when he eavesdropped on a nearby table of women. As the daughter rebuked her mother for having bourgeois, ideals, she exclaimed that she forgot her Cartier bracelet in her friend’s BMW. In Chapter 1, Sasha was frustrated that Cord’s sister refused to remove her belongings from the house. When the couple moved into the house on Pineapple Street, they made an agreement with Cord’s parents to live in his childhood home rent free. Sasha never felt welcomed into the Stockton family, even after she and Cord married. His sisters were cordial but “their family was a unit, a closed-circuit Sasha couldn’t ever seem to penetrate” (12). At a housewarming party for Chad and Tilda’s new condo on Orange Street, the guests handed...