Fredrick Backman’s latest novel Anxious People’s story unfolds within an apartment, where our failed thief takes hostage a real-estate agent and his clients. Lamenting his failure, the robber explains to his hostages, “I’m having quite a complicated day here!” And, so are they.
The city is fuelled by aspiration, Juhi, her boss liked to say. And we are the fuel that fuels those aspirations, magicians who create ads that convince people that what they want is what they don’t have.
