Every character’s life seems to somehow be linked to that suicide in a way that has deeply impacted the persons they went on to become. There was also a suicide – decades ago – committed by jumping from a bridge that is visible from this apartment. By the time the police raid the place, the robber has vanished, and none of the colourful testimonies of the seven eccentric-in-their-own-ways people offers any useful leads. The setting of Anxious People is imaginative and gripping: a bank robber on the run from law holds seven people hostage at an apartment showing. The fact that I had little to add to the review on the cover was one of the reasons I did not write about it when I first read it. Specifically, the review you see on its cover: The book truly is “funny, compassionate, wise”, and an “absolute joy”. Anxious People is a book that can very well be judged by its cover.
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