Primates of Park Avenue: Adventures Inside the Secret Sisterhood of Manhattan Moms

Written by:
Wednesday Martin
Narrated by:
Madeleine Maby

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
16
Narrator
6
Release Date
June 2015
Duration
8 hours 9 minutes
Summary
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.
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Nicola L

A great insight into a world so extremely different from my own.

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Alexandra P von Sauber

Fantastic book! Must Read London is the same but more close more expensive and less fashionable :)

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Paula Emeigh

This was a great book into the inside life of the upper east side Manhattan life. Well read and well written. I would love to read more from this author

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