In his second novel, Peep Show (Algonquin), following a much-praised debut (The Unmistakable Thoughts of Jacob Green), Josh Braff writes of a family in the 1970s, caught very much in a tug between past and present. Son of a father who runs an old-fashioned Times Square peep show/burlesque joint and a mother who had once danced there but has now turned devotedly to Hasidic practice, he tries to find his way, as his parents separately go theirs. "The Arbuses used to be the kind of affluent, assimilated suburban Jews that Braff anatomized in his brutally funny debut ... David's narration shows him struggling with his mother, who wants him to embrace 'the life I've found.' He can't, but he's not happy living with his father in Manhattan ... Humane, passionate, and very moving." - Kirkus Reviews.