**We may hold this at a restaurant if things are looking better.**A
poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a
would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely
anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever
imagined
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 up their own marriage.
There s a wealthy banker who has been too busy making money 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. 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 a motion a chain
of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens
next.
Humorous, compassionate, and wise, Anxious People is an ingeniously
constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness,
and hope—the things that save us, even in the most anxious of times.
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