Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
Category: Novel
Narrator: Marin Ireland
Tags: Novel, Humor, Literature
Publishers Summary From the number one New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove and writer of astonishing depth (The Washington Times) comes 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 isnt 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 hunts down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they cant fix their own marriage. Theres a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but cant seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an 87-year-old woman who has lived lo
