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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 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.
Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir Details
Print Length: 257 pages ( Download PDF:
)File Size: 3878 KB
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (June 2, 2015)
Publication Date: June 2, 2015
Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
Language: English
ASIN: B00P4348G0
Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world—the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood.
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Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir Review
Lacking content and stories
I was disappointed by this book for the following reasons:
(1) All the hype in the press basically revealed most content before publication, so when reading the book I felt like I had already read the material.
(2) There are not really any well-developed characters. It basically lumps these moms all together. For sure, they have different an interesting stories. I understand her not wanting to betray the trust of friends by revealing their stories. I would not either, but the book suffers because of it.
(3) I read the book in about 4 hours and with Kindle it's hard to get a sense of how long a book really is, but I didn't feel it was worth the money spent on it. Related to this, if I understand correctly, she lived with these people for six years. It seems like this book would have taken about 1-2 years to put together at most.
Mean Girls...all grown up and humorless
Judging by the cover, the publishers are clearly aiming for the beach-reading-chick-lit audience, and I was happy to oblige, picking up the book for a fun summer read. Unfortunately, even for a breezy story I was disappointed by the laziness of this book. If you have ever seen the movie Mean Girls, you know the predictable storyline. Fish out of water 'normal girl' attempts to integrate herself into a strange subculture of wealthy, spoiled and entitled girls. Secretly, she reports on their strange behaviors to her 'normal friends' while comparing them to jungle animals, eventually turning into the very thing she was initially repelled by. I was into the concept, however without the addition of Tina Fey's wry humor, the story is just...boring. With broad strokes, the author paints herself as an 'anthropologist' and frequently structures the beginning of chapters like a tongue in cheek scientific paper. Quoting Jane Goodall over and over and over and over again, the author seems to think that we won't understand the title unless she brings up the mating rituals of primates every 20 pages.
About the Author
Wednesday Martin, PhD, has worked as writer and social researcher in New York City for more than two decades. The author of Stepmonster and the instant New York Times bestseller Primates of Park Avenue, she has appeared on Today, CNN, NPR, NBC News, the BBC Newshour, and Fox News as an expert on step-parenting and parenting issues. She writes for the online edition of Psychology Today and her work has appeared in The New York Times and Time.com.
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