Episode 92-Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

I love how Fredrik Backman creates the messiest most human humans and lets them have the most real awkward fraught sweet moments your heart can stand. I laugh/cried through 'A Man Called Ove' almost 10 years ago and laugh/cried through Anxious People too. What could be better than to chat about this with one of my favorite kindred messy humans, Emily Petersmark, the rockin singer songwriter from Michigan based band The Crane Wives. Strangers at an open house become hostages....sort of....and it isn't really scary. It's touching. It's weird and funny. And so much lived life is underneath all the mundane and then you remember the title. And all assumptions about the characters I started with were challenged and reminded me to check myself. I was beating myself up when I started this write-up because I meant to release it over a week ago. Then I remembered that this whole book is about how ridiculously difficult it is to be human. 'Don't think about that anymore now. Think about something nicer. Think about cookies.'