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Also by Joshua Braff:

Peep Show, June 2010
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The Unthinkable Thoughts Of Jacob Green, October 2005
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PEEP SHOW
By: Joshua Braff

Algonquin Books
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Featuring: David Arbus
274 pages
ISBN: 1565125088
EAN: 9781565125087
Paperback
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Fiction

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. He joins the family business. What else would a healthy seventeen-year-old with an interest in photography do? But he didn’t think it would mean giving up his mother and sister altogether.

Peep Show is the bittersweet 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 peepholes.

As entertaining as it is moving, Peep Show looks at the elaborate ensembles, rituals, assumed names, and fierce loyalties of two secret worlds, stripping away the curtains of both.

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All Things Considered - August 16, 2010