{"product_id":"primates-of-park-avenue-a-memoir-9781476762715","title":"Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin, Wednesday:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Wednesday Martin, PhD, has worked as writer and social researcher in New York City for more than two decades. The author of \u003ci\u003eStepmonster\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrimates of Park Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e, she has appeared on \u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e, CNN, NPR, \u003ci\u003eNBC News\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBBC Newshour\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFox News \u003c\/i\u003eas an expert on step-parenting and parenting issues. She writes for the online edition of \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She was a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e's parenting and lifestyle pages for several years and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e. Wednesday received her PhD from Yale University and lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50656435339538,"sku":"9781476762715","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5dc0928d-2aa2-4b45-bd91-534b53a52b04.jpg?v=1733387223","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/primates-of-park-avenue-a-memoir-9781476762715","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}