![]() ![]() ![]() And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns display rituals physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices extra-pair copulation and more. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe.Īfter marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. ![]()
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