An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an âamusing, perceptive andâŚdeliciously evilâ (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribeâManhattanâs Upper East Side mothers.
When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York Cityâs Upper East Side, sheâs clueless about the right addresses, the right wardrobe, and the right schools, and sheâs 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 tribeâs 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, Wednesdayâs world is turned upside down, and she finds out thereâs much more to the women who sheâs secretly been calling Manhattan Geishas.
âThink Gossip Girl, but with a sociological study of the parentsâ (InStyle.com), Wednesdayâs memoir is absolutely âeye-poppingâ (People). Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a worldâthe strange, exotic, and utterly foreign and fascinating life of privileged Manhattan motherhood.