Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir / Wednesday Martin, Ph.D.

Title:

ISBN:

9781476762623

Personal Author:

Martin, Wednesday

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Physical Description:

vii, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Comme il faut -- Playdate pariah -- Going native : Mommy wants a birkin -- Manhattan geisha -- A girls' night in -- A Xanax and a bloody Mary : Manhattan moms on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- A rainy day -- Summary fieldnotes.

Summary:

After 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 mothers₂ 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.

Personal Subject:

Martin, Wednesday.

Geographic Term:

Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography

New York (N.Y.) -- Biography

Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs

New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs

Subject Term:

Mothers--New York (State)--New York -- Biography.

Mothers--New York (State)--New York -- Social life and customs

Primates -- Behavior -- Miscellanea

Interpersonal relations--New York (State)--New York