It stars Leif Andrée, Marika Lagercrantz, Per Andersson, Lottie Ejebrant, and Anna Granath. If the first 100 pages feel like you’re waiting for Godot inside an Ikea (they dwell on the annoying Zara, so…), keep reading. Anxious People ( Swedish: Folk med ångest) is a 2021 Swedish comedy drama television series directed by Felix Herngren and based on a book of the same name by Fredrik Backman.

But Backman broadens the concept to embrace us all, our anxieties about life, our empathy for everyone, our struggles daily to do our best.Ĭaveat: If the first two remarkable, laugh-out-loud pages don’t hook you, read no further. Rich with Fredrik Backman’s pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature (Shelf Awareness), Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hopethe things that save us, even in the most anxious times. With Backman, as with life, there’s always a more compelling backstory, more heartbreaking and heartwarming secrets.īarely mentioned is the “Stockholm Syndrome,” a psychological condition named for a 1973 botched bank robbery in Stockholm when four bank employees taken hostage affectionately bonded with their captors. Fredrik Backman is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You Shes Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, and Anxious. 'I was slipping into despair': Jane Fonda finds hope, purpose in climate change activismīook review: Ruth Ware brings chills with isolated locked door mystery 'One by One'īut nothing is what it seems: not the bank robber’s identity, or the toy gun that’s real, or the man in the bathroom wearing only underpants and a costume rabbit’s head, or that balcony view of the suicide bridge connecting several characters.

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