Anxious People – Fredrik Backman

In Anxious People, Fredrik Backman tells a story about a bridge.  Or, maybe, about idiots.  Or about a bank robbery that wasn’t, which turned into a hostage situation that, again, wasn’t.  With nothing quite what it seems, a group of people, connected by circumstances new and old, are interviewed by the police as they try to find the hostage taker.

I first heard of Anxious People when it finished second, to The Midnight Library, in the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction novel of 2020.  It kept popping up, since my friend Val had read it, and it seemed interesting.  Backman’s style her was something completely different, giving away hints and facts about the characters in the story, and the story itself, in bits and pieces as the tale moves along.  I’d be interested in seeing what else Backman has done and hope he can deliver again.