Release Date:- 2015-06-02
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An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an āamusing, perceptive andā¦deliciously evilā (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribeāManhattanās Upper East Side mothers.
When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York Cityās Upper East Side, sheās clueless about the right addresses, the right wardrobe, and the right schools, and sheās taken aback by the glamorous, sharp-elbowed mommies around her. She feels hazed and unwelcome until she begins to look at her new niche through the lens of her academic background in anthropology. As she analyzes the tribeās mating and migration patterns, childrearing practices, fetish objects, physical adornment practices, magical purifying rituals, bonding rites, and odd realities like sex segregation, she finds it easier to fit in and even enjoy her new life. Then one day, Wednesdayās world is turned upside down, and she finds out thereās much more to the women who sheās secretly been calling Manhattan Geishas.
āThink Gossip Girl, but with a sociological study of the parentsā (InStyle.com), Wednesdayās memoir is absolutely āeye-poppingā (People). Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a worldāthe strange, exotic, and utterly foreign and fascinating life of privileged Manhattan motherhood.