Instant New York Times Bestseller The book that has outraged the social elite Eye-popping People Amusing perceptive anddeliciously evil The New York Times Book Review Juicy sexy bawdy stuff New York Daily News Think Gossip Girl but with a sociological study of the parents InStylecom Like an urban Dian Fossey Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribeAfter marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology she tried looking at her new world through that lens and suddenly things fell into place She understood the other mothers snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns display rituals physical adornment mutilation and mating practices extra-pair copulation and more Her conclusions are smart thought-provoking and hilariously unexpected Every city has its Upper East Side and in Wednesdays memoir readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers wantsafety happiness and successand not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss When Wednesdays life turns upside down she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are Intelligent funny and heartfelt Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret elite world within a worldthe exotic fascinating and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood.
