Marin Ireland narrates and did a delightful job with the characters, tone and pacing. Clever, insightful and at times downright hilarious, I completely slipped into the story. Only the police are treating this as an armed hostage situation.
It’s a play on a murder in a locked room. What drives someone to commit suicide? What makes a normal mom try to rob a bank? Is that couple as perfect as they appear? And who’s the wealthy lady that appears out of place? He allows the reader to gain understanding and see fresh perspectives.
A suicide attempt, a psychologist, and father-son cops trying to find the perp, created the perfect recipe for humor, enlightenment, and unlikely outcomes.īackman has this unique understanding of what it means to be human, flaws and all. Narrated by Marin Ireland, Backman delivered mystery, humor and a heartwarming tale about a group of people attending an open house.Įight strangers in one apartment during a showing open up to each other as the police try to coax a failed bank robber into surrendering. I went into Anxious People completely blind and wasn’t sure what to expect. I love listening to Backman’s novels on audio. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people. And despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn’t really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn’t outside parking the car.Īs police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. And there’s Estelle, an 80-year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by a masked bank robber waving a gun in her face. Julia and Ro are a young lesbian couple and soon-to-be parents who are nervous about their chances for a successful life together since they can’t agree on anything. Then there’s Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted retired couple who are on a never-ending hunt for fixer-uppers to hide the fact that they don’t know how to fix their own failing marriage. Now, she’s obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live - and, perhaps, to set an old wrong to right. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers slowly begin slowly opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths.įirst is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage.
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