'Anxious People' challenges biases, encourages empathy through ridiculous characters and plot
When I first started reading “Anxious People” by Frederick Backman over winter break, I was not particularly enamored. I could only read in short spurts and had little focus. One afternoon, however, I sat down to read and all of a sudden it came alive for me. Over the next few days sitting on my grandparents’ plush beige couch, I devoured “Anxious People.”