My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel [L0027]

2016 PB in excellent condition. A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove. Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy-as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. 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. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart Backman's A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I am a regular reader (I tend to read several books a week) and still I have to say that this is the best work of fiction I've read in ages. I laughed out loud on almost every page of this book, but also sobbed periodically as this precocious little girl learns to deal with the reality of life. I fell in love with Elsa- her voice was so strong and true."; "If your heart and mind are open to an appreciation of just how connected we all are to one another and an awareness that stories can weave a web of love so powerful as to tighten those bonds beyond destruction, then this is the perfect book for you... maybe even an important one in this age of angst."; "Glorious book. If you want a book to laugh and cry with, OMG this is one. An old fashioned kind of feel to it, a kindness to it as it creates a better world for a little girl who's different. Mr Backman you are a genius and a hellofa writer."