Anxious People

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I think I might be being generous. I felt like this cutesy telling of a bank-heist-hostage situation was all over the place. There were flashbacks, and witness statements, and more flashbacks and backstories and more flashbacks. Maybe it was me but it was hard to keep it all straight. Especially since there were also mistaken identities, flashback tie-ins, and missing persons. And new persons hiding in the bathroom. It ends nice, but the first part emphasizes everyone's problems and anxieties and made me a little depressed myself. Maybe another time in my life I would have enjoyed this but as it was, it was just a little too much--too twisty, too cutesy, too quirky-corny.

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