Anxious People is the best book I’ve read in a long time. It managed both to make me laugh out loud and start to cry. Taking place on the eve of New Year’s Eve in a small town in Sweden, it brings together a fairly large cast without losing site of any of them, and making their voices and stories distinct. A burglar attempts to rob a cashless bank for a pittance, then runs away only to stumble into the open house of an apartment […]
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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman