What happens when a passionate social researcher moves to Manhattan to raise her children among the rich and beautiful of New York? She conducts field research: With the trained eye of an anthropologist, Wednesday Martin has interviewed over a hundred women in her neighborhood and does not hold back on details as she describes the exotic species surrounding Central Park. She observes women who manage their own penthouses like CEOs run companies. She meets graduates of prestigious elite universities who allow their millionaire husbands to dictate a "housewife bonus." And she tells stories of mothers who push their children to achieve top grades and turn the organization of a birthday party into a global event. The (self-)dictate of always being a perfect and sexy mother is something German women know as well—perhaps even more intensely.