Along with this mystery, the story explores the relationships between the characters, their reasons for being in the apartment in the first place, and the way the experience changes them.Īnxious People contains the following tropes: The novel slowly unravels the mystery not just of the vanishing robber, but of what transpired in the apartment that no one else was there to see. All they know is that whoever the bank robber is, they were gone by the time the police arrived, seemingly vanished. The apartment viewing had become a hostage situation.Īs for how the hostage situation went, that's what father and son police officers Jim and Jack are trying to figure out. Then a bank robber ran into the apartment, brandishing a gun. It was looking to be a very uneventful day in a very uneventful town. Six strangers-Zara, Julia, Ro, Roger, Anna-Lena, and Estelle-had gathered for an apartment viewing, for varying reasons. Anxious People is a 2020 comedy-drama novel by Fredrik Backman, of A Man Called Ove and Beartown.
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