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Was passiert, wenn eine passionierte Sozialforscherin nach Manhattan zieht, um dort, mitten unter den Reichen und Schönen New Yorks, ihre Kinder zu erziehen? Sie betreibt Feldforschung: Mit dem geschulten Blick der Anthropologin hat Wednesday Martin über hundert Frauen in ihrer Nachbarschaft befragt und spart nicht mit Details, wenn sie die exotisch anmutende Spezies rund um den Central Park beschreibt: Sie beobachtet Frauen, die das eigene Penthouse führen wie ein Vorstandsvorsitzender ein Unternehmen. Sie trifft Absolventinnen renommierter Elite-Universitäten, die sich von ihren Millionen schweren Ehemännern einen "Hausfrauen-Bonus" diktieren lassen. Und sie erzählt von Müttern, die ihre Kinder zu Bestnoten pushen und die Organisation eines Kindergeburtstags zum Weltereignis erklären. Das (Selbst-)Diktat, als Mutter stets perfekt und sexy zu sein, kennen auch deutsche Frauen - härter als im New York der Upper East Side aber sind die Regeln nirgendwo.

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Primates of Park Avenue is an "amusing, perceptive and...deliciously evil" memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe, Manhattan´s Upper East Side mothers.

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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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Martin, Wednesday
Wednesday Martin, PhD, has worked as writer and social researcher in New York City for more than two decades. The author of Stepmonster and 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. She was a regular contributor to New York Post´s parenting and lifestyle pages for several years and has written for The Daily Telegraph.

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