Description
The Anxious People is a thought-provoking novel by Fredrik Backman, balancing elements of humor and poignancy as the book opens up ideas about anxiety, connectivity, and all the messiness within human relationships. A story about an attempted bank robbery that opens up the apartment to an open house with a bunch of anxious people who, by happenstance, become hostages of this apartment.
Character-Driven Stories. Every character has his past when one can catch glimpses of personal struggle, fears, and anxieties. In the movie, the types of cast members are depicted: from an elderly couple to young couples, pregnant women, and so on, how anxiety unfolds differently in each one of them.
Interconnected Story: You go from this hostage situation now to their history that the two have, and by the end of it you are all linked by that type of anxiety affecting them with their lives and relationship in mind.
Humor and Heart: Despite the gravity of the topic, Backman infuses the narrative with humor. Most funny things people do happen when life gets out of control, and the quirks of living make it worse. How they’d react to that and get over that is a way in which some can relate.
Empathy and understanding are the important threads that surface, calling people to look beyond the surface behaviors to discover common plights that hold us together.
The book Anxious People is very interestingly written with highly developed characters in a style that invites a reader’s introspection about the anxious moments, the nature of human experience, bonds created by shared challenge and ultimately the rise above the hope and resilience.
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