{"product_id":"9781476762715","title":"Primates of Park Avenue : A Memoir","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePrimates of Park Avenue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Wednesday Martin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003ePrimates of Park Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e is an “amusing, perceptive and…deliciously evil” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe—Manhattan’s Upper East Side mothers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Think \u003ci\u003eGossip Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, but with a sociological study of the parents” (InStyle.com), Wednesday’s memoir is absolutely “eye-popping” (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003ePrimates of Park Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world—the strange, exotic, and utterly foreign and fascinating life of privileged Manhattan motherhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"Think privileged NYC wives are another species? Martin goes undercover in this dishy memoir and reminds us that we all have something in common.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Amusing...incisive...a wryly entertaining guide to this rarefied subculture.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Any population is fair game for anthropological research, so why not the super-rich, super-thin, and oh-so-well-dressed mothers of New York's Upper East Side?... Illuminating and fun.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"I absolutely loved this memoir and could not put it down! It's incredibly clever; Martin uses anthropology to analyze Upper East mothers, and it's astonishingly illuminating. Somehow, Martin manages to be caustically perceptive but also generous, funny, moving, and erudite all at the same time. This is one of the most fascinating books I've read in a long time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781476762715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40963919151310,"sku":"9781476762715","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_2a56cb34-8417-4ff7-bb37-64155eef7348.jpg?v=1646427772","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781476762715","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}