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Anxious People: A Novel

by Fredrik Backman, translated by Niel Smith

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman, translated by Niel Smith appears in NPR’s 2020 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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