04870cam a2200829 4500 2345732330 TxAuBib 20250614120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781501160851 1501160850 B082J5KYG6 Amazon ff9306cf-a01d-475b-8130-830b9c38f1f9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5152790 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Backman, Fredrik, 1981- Anxious People [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Atria Books, 2020. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. things my son needs to know about the world. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. amazon best books of the year. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. instant national bestseller. new york times bestseller. literature in translation. amazon best books of 2020. Books that make you cry. books about friendship. a man called ove movie. Britt-Marie Was Here. locked room mystery. bookseller favorite. heartwarming books. deal of a lifetime. emotional journey. The Rosie Project. new backman novel. britt-marie movie. gifts for women. book club books. swedish author. Man Called Ove. Nordic fiction. Us Against You. Heather's Pick. grumpy old men. mental health. reading group. gifts for men. #1 bestseller. Maria Semple. beartown hbo. funny books. the winners. amazon pick. loneliness. depression. Tom Hanks. fun reads. Beartown. Suicide. booktok. HTML:An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a "quirky, big-hearted novel....Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure" (People). 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. 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. 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. 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. Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. Proving once again that Backman is "a master of writing delightful, insightful, soulful, character-driven narratives" (USA TODAY), Anxious People "captures the messy essence of being human....It's clever and affecting, as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry" (The Washington Post). This "endlessly entertaining mood-booster" (Real Simple) is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us—even in the most anxious of times. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-06-14 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ff9306cf-a01d-475b-8130-830b9c38f1f9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ff9306cf-a01d-475b-8130-830b9c38f1f9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)