Anxious People

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Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

Date Published: September 8, 2020
Published By: Atria Books
Page Count: 352


Publisher’s Description:

A poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined

Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix up their own marriage. There’s a wealthy banker who has been too busy making money to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.

Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in a motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.

Humorous, compassionate, and wise, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope—the things that save us, even in the most anxious of times.


My Star Rating:

5 of 5 stars

My Review:

Anxious PeopleAnxious People by Fredrik Backman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Fredrik Backman has done it again. You know that saying about being kind because everyone is fighting an invisible battle we know nothing about? It’s like this book took that phrase and turned it into a really awesome, really detailed and in depth story.

This book made me feel so much compassion and sympathy for each character. There were moments that made me literally laugh out loud, moments that got a little too real, and moments that gave me a little hope in the human race. There was definitely a lot of suspense building that had me turning the pages, needing to know what happened, what’s the rest of the story that something just set up and dangled in front of me.

This is a story of community, of a bank robbery, of a hostage situation. Of a group of people brought together in such an innocuous circumstance and things taking an unexpected turn with unexpected results and consequences. And maybe even a love story.

Read it!

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