Primates of Park Avenue: Adventures Inside the Secret Sisterhood of Manhattan Moms Audiobook (Free)
- Madeleine Maby
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2015-06-02
Summary:
An instantaneous #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an “amusing, perceptive and…deliciously evil” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review) memoir of the very most secretive and elite tribe-Manhattan’s Top East Side mothers.
When Thursday Martin first arrives in NY City’s Upper East Part, she’s clueless about the right addresses, the proper wardrobe, and the proper academic institutions, and she’s astonished by the glamorous, sharp-elbowed mommies around her. She feels hazed and unwelcome until about Primates of Park Avenue: Adventures Inside the Top secret Sisterhood of Manhattan Moms she begins to look at her new market 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 methods, magical purifying rituals, bonding rites, and odd realities like sex segregation, she discovers it easier to fit in and even enjoy her new life. Then one time, Wednesday’s world is certainly turned upside down, and she finds out there’s a lot more to the women who she’s secretly been calling Manhattan Geishas.
“Think Gossip Female, but using a sociological research from the parents” (InStyle.com), Wednesday’s memoir is completely “eye-popping” (People). Primates of Park Avenue elevates a veil on a secret, elite globe within a world-the unusual, exotic, and absolutely foreign and interesting lifestyle of privileged Manhattan motherhood.
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