An instant #1 New York Times bestseller Primates of Park Avenue is an amusing perceptive
and...deliciously evil (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite
tribe-Manhattan's Upper East Side mothers. When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York
City's Upper East Side she's clueless about the right addresses the right wardrobe and the
right schools and she's 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 tribe's 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 Wednesday's world is turned upside down and she finds out
there's much more to the women who she's secretly been calling Manhattan Geishas. Think Gossip
Girl but with a sociological study of the parents (InStyle.com) Wednesday's memoir is
absolutely eye-popping (People). Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret elite world
within a world-the strange exotic and utterly foreign and fascinating life of privileged
Manhattan motherhood.
