Anxious People
2019 • 352 pages

Ratings231

Average rating4.2

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Characters:
a bank robber who doesn't know what to do and who doesn't know much about robbing banks;
a rich banker who is too busy making money to think about people;
a retired couple who have forgotten why they are together once their children were grown;
a young couple about to have their first child who fight about everything;
an elderly woman who has seen everything and isn't concerned about a gun;
a real estate agent who is frightened of what's going on;
a rabbit.

Setting:
an open house for an apartment for sale, where the bank robber bursts in and takes all the attendees hostage after failing to rob a bank.

Plot:
the unexpectedly interconnected backstories of all the characters.

Rating:
A story filled with both humor and surprising wisdom.

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