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Primates of Park Avenue

Adventures Inside the Secret Sisterhood of Manhattan Moms

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 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), 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. Anthropology Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships Women Funny Witty Heartfelt Memoir
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Really great read. Gives a brilliant insight into what many suspected these types of women would be like but had a depth and warmth through it that didn’t make you feel like a peasant.

Just LOVED it!

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I 1 enjoyed listening to this title. It was interesting to hear about a different way of life from the prospective of someone who had lived it first hand. The narrator was a little dull to listen to at times though.

Was really interesting and different

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this was a really.good book a nice insight into the lives of thr new york equivalent of the stepford wives 😀 i enjoyed it

what a book

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The author fails to see that not everyone listening to this book left school at 15 and lives in a small rural town and has never heard of topics such as Sociology or outdated authors like Margaret Mead. The theme is established early that the author thinks that describing human life from the viewpoint of a cynical 1980’s Marxist educated Social Sciences graduate sounds highly intellectual.
The smug arrogance of privilege is annoying. I was hoping for an entertaining and intellectual observation of life in NYC amongst the ladies who carry small dogs in a Dumas Birkin bag but sadly it was an elitist description of a chosen life of excess from a person pretending to be an outsider.

Patronising to us plebs, elitist and intellectually arrogant.

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