My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

All the letter apologize to the receiver. When Granny dies of cancer, she leaves letters for Elsa to deliver. The cast of characters living in the apartment complex or house, come alive in the fairytales. Granny shares her fairytale world of The Land-of-Almost-Awake with this lonely little girl to help her to cope with her world. As this story unfolds and you learn more about Granny, it is easy to see why she does what she does, she is a humanitarian who has saved numerous people all the while using her marvelous imagination. Granny, loves Elsa deeply and even though everyone thinks she is crazy, she will do whatever it takes to make Elsa feel better and take risks. The main character in this story is seven year old Elsa, a girl without friends, who is teased and bullied at school. It is a story about life and death and an ode to one of the most important human rights: the right to be different. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman's internationally bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. Her grandmother's letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and totally ordinary old crones, but also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins.

At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales.Įlsa is seven years old and different.

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman