But when you get home this evening, when this day is over and the night takes us, allow yourself a deep breath. Because we made it through this day as well.
There’ll be another one along tomorrow.
Anxious People- Fredrick Backman, Page 390
Anxious People is a book that takes you on a journey of several people, each with a different story, suffering and struggling in their own ways. What makes it interesting is the style in which it is written. The way it starts, how the events unfold, and how they conclude are remarkably described.
Two local detectives, a father-son duo are caught in a “bank robbery” which intriguingly turns into a hostage situation. The book contains a good amount of documented transcripts of the interviews taken.
The book contains some painful and truth-bomb throwing lines that compel you to think about the drudgery of daily life, complications of adulthood, and the unending chores of survival.
When you’re a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you’re an adult you realise that’s the worst part of it.
Anxious People, Fredrick Backman, Page 216
Backman has very slyly interlaced the stories of all the characters and made them look simple and uncomplicated. There is the father-son duo Jim and Jack and all others who were held hostage-Zara, a bank employee and depressed middle-aged woman, Julia and Ro-a married lesbian couple, Estelle-an old woman, Anna-Lena and Roger-a weird couple who have visited every IKEA store in the country, Lennart-a person with the weirdest job of disrupting apartment viewings, the House Tricks estate agent and last but not the least-the bank robber. But nothing is random and nothing appears just like that in the novel. You will be on the edge all the time at how the story unfolds at the end. Not even for a single moment, the book gets dull or monotonous.
The ending is both surprising and oddly satisfying.
Published by: Penguin Books
Rating 4.5/5
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