{"id":10656,"date":"2021-04-30T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/?p=10656"},"modified":"2022-08-27T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:25:16","slug":"our-june-book-club-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/our-june-book-club-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Our June Book Club Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"anxious-people\">Anxious People<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:44% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/49127718._SX315_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9271 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/49127718._SX315_-1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/49127718._SX315_-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"has-large-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 20px; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><strong>About the book:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span id=\"freeText5037797245986587528\" style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><em><b>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<\/b><\/em><br><br>Looking at real estate isn&#8217;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&#8217;t fix up their own marriage. There&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s only bathroom, and you&#8217;ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.<br><br>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\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 a motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next. <br><br>Humorous, compassionate, and wise, <i>Anxious People<\/i> is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope\u2014the things that save us, even in the most anxious of times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/49127718-anxious-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find it on Goodreads<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anxious-People-Novel-Fredrik-Backman\/dp\/1501160834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get it on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"will-you-be-joining-us\">Will you be joining us?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Join the discussions on <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/bookerybliss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/bookeryblissbookclub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">#bookeryblissbookclub<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> and tag us for a chance to win book club prizes throughout the year! View the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/bookclub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BookeryBliss Book Club<\/a> for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxious People Will you be joining us?<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookerybliss.com\/our-june-book-club-pick\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[764],"tags":[738,766],"reading-challenges":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our June Book Club Pick<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BookeryBliss Book Club Picks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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