And there’s Estelle, an eighty-year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by a masked bank robber waving a gun in her face. Julia and Ro are a young lesbian couple and soon-to-be parents who are nervous about their chances for a successful life together since they can’t agree on anything.
Then there’s Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted retired couple who are on a never-ending hunt for fixer-uppers to hide the fact that they don’t know how to fix their own failing marriage. Now, she’s obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live-and, perhaps, to set an old wrong to right. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers slowly begin opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths.įirst is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and “writer of astonishing depth” ( The Washington Times) comes a poignant comedy 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.
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