We Know Books. Books Are All We Do.

Rob absolutely loved this book.  The perfect paperback for summer reading.  USA Today wrote that Peep Show is "A funny, heart-twisting story … [Braff writes] with wry humor, assured prose and a keen sensitivity to the emotional minefields of familial relationships … Braff deftly captures the monumental and the miniscule moments of everyday life.”

Book Summary 

The adult entertainment industry and the world of Hasidic Jews couldn’t be more different. Or could they? Here’s novel evidence that all the world really is a stage — it’s only a matter of which costume you wear. David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic sect or go into his father’s line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New York’s Times Square. What else would a healthy seventeen-year-old with an interest in photography do? He joins the family business. But he didn’t think it would mean giving up his sister and mother altogether. Peep Show is the story of a young man torn between a mother trying to erase her past and a father struggling to maintain his dignity in a less-than-savory business. As David peeps through the spaces in the screen that divides the men and the women in Hasidic homes, we can’t help but think of his father’s Imperial Theatre, where other men are looking at other women through the peep holes. As entertaining as it is moving, Peep Show looks at the elaborate ensembles and rituals, assumed names, and fierce loyalties of two secret worlds, pulling away the curtains of both

Peep Show (Paperback)

By Joshua Braff

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9781565125087
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 6/2010

Other Editions of this Title

“A funny, heart-twisting story … [Braff writes] with wry humor, assured prose and a keen sensitivity to the emotional minefields of familial relationships … Braff deftly captures the monumental and the miniscule moments of everyday life.” – USA Today

“Jacob Green has a lot of “unthinkable thoughts” — and Braff’s great ear and lively voice communicate them with plenty of laughs and poignancy.” – Hartford Courant

“What teenage boy hasn’t felt he was being held hostage by his own prurient thoughts? … Joshua Braff’s novel reveals such mental wanderlust with humor, asking profound questions that even middle-aged men with vague memories of adolescence will recognize.” – Dallas Morning News

“Whether he’s writing about religion, pornography, or the family ruined by both in this smart, funny, heartbreaking novel, Braff does it with authority, wit, and an unflagging compassion for his hopelessly broken characters.” – Jonathan Tropper, Author of This Is Where I Leave You

Braff brings together two very different cultures with sympathy for both … David and his parents present an intriguing contrast in the struggle to uphold a set of values and the painful necessity of compromise.” – Publisher’s Weekly

---