Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir
Martin, Wednesday2016
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After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighbourhood, 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 analysed 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.
Main title:
Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir / Wednesday Martin.
Author:
Martin, Wednesday, author
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Collation:
272 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781476762715 (pbk)
Dewey class:
974.71
LC class:
F128.68.U63
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1661401