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This makes for a complex start, and at first, everyone and everything was disjointed. They’re not used to bank robbers or handling hostage situations.Īnxious People immediately plunges the reader into this preposterous event told from multiple points of view.

Father and son officers, Jim the old hand and Jack preferring modern methods, make up most of the small police force in their small town. The police aren’t having a good day either. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. I’ll do my best to give you an overview and let you decide whether to try this wacky tale. It leaps all over the place in time, and yet comes together in the end - so I have no clear opinion on this book. The plot is crazy, but the characters are wonderfully flawed and complex. You see, I had trouble with Anxious People, yet enjoyed much of it.

Now, you should know it has taken me forever to write up my thoughts of this widely popular and best-selling novel.

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