{"id":50,"date":"2021-03-05T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-03-23T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:27:09","slug":"anxious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/2021\/03\/05\/anxious-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxious People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Anxious People<\/em><br \/>\nby Fredrik Backman<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Book description from Amazon:<\/strong><br \/>\nLooking at real estate isn\u2019t 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\u2019t fix their own marriage. There\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019s only bathroom, and you\u2019ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.<br \/>\nEach 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\u2014the bank robber included\u2014desperately 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the nominator think this would be a good book for the Campus Read?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Anxious People is a wonderful novel. It starts a little slowly, although several in my book club were entranced from the very beginning. It is about love of all kinds, interconnectedness, and the kindness of strangers. This is a great time for an uplifting, heartwarming and funny book, even though the themes are serious.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Book description from Amazon: Looking at real estate isn\u2019t 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,30,19,27],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-championship","tag-norris-vs-shouldice","tag-shouldice-matchup-1","tag-shouldice-round-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/03\/AnxiousPeople.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}