Anxious People

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Book: Anxious People

Author: Fredrik Backman

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Language: Language

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”

This is a story about a bridge and idiots and a hostage drama and an apartment viewing. But it is a love story. Several in fact.

This is my second book of Fredrik Backman, first was "A man called Ove." It is not simple to describe what this book about. It is exactly what the first sentence says. The writing technique was different. The firs half was eccentric, hilarious and had me in splits.