Set in Sweden, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman is a crazy, mixed up tale of a person under great duress who is pushed to the limit by domestic circumstances. When all else fails, the parent of two decides the only way out of personal problems is to rob a bank for enough money to cover a month’s rent.
However, while a robbery
never happens, the perpetrator stumbles into an apartment open house taking
those in attendance into hostage. After they are released by the criminal, eight
kooky hostages bewilder the police who are trying to take an investigative report
and solve the crime. The mystery starts when the police cannot find any trace
of the gun-slinging would-be robber/hostage taker in the apartment after the
hostages are freed.
Nothing is as it seems
in this story, and several big switches take place before the denouement after
which seems to be several endings to the story.
The
story is supposed to be witty and entertaining, but it did not appeal to my sense
of humor.
Fredrik
Backman came to fame with his book A Man Called Ove, which is becoming a movie
with Tom Hanks as Ove. Backman and his family live in Sweden.
My review will be posted on Goodreads starting
September 23, 2020.
I would like to thank Atria Books, an imprint of Simon
& Schuster, for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective review.
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