My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

by Backman, Fredrik
ISBN: 9781501115073
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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. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman's bestselling debut novel, 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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Backman, Fredrik
  • ISBN: 9781501115073
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.10 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 400
  • Publication Year: 2016

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  • The Kingdom of Miamas

    Kristen B. - 2 years 5 months ago

    At only 7 years old, Elsa loses her grandmother. Her amazing grandmother that took care of her, loved her, and told her magical stories about the Kingdom of Miamas. Elsa is devastated but soon discovers that her grandmother left her a series of apology letters to give to different people from their lives. As Elsa hands off these letters, she soon learns that the Kingdom of Miamas might not be a fairy tale after all. Suspend your belief of how typical 7-year-olds behave and treat this like one of the stories that Elsa's grandmother tells her. Elsa does not act like a typical 7-year-old, but that's why I love her. She is fierce, smart, and emotional. Backman writes so fluidly that this book is an absolute delight to devour.

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  • Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. Thats just how it is.

    Katie M. - 5 years 1 month ago

    Fredrick Backman's "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry" pulls the reader into a house in Sweden through the eyes of one of its youngest tenants, Elsa, a nearly seven year old girl whose favorite phrase is "no shit, Sherlock" and whose favorite object is a Gryffindor scarf, because she is a fan of "quality literature." After the passing of Elsa's granny, an eccentric and polarizing figure in the house, Elsa becomes the superhero of a real life fairy tale taken straight from her grandmother's imagination. Through a series of letters and encounters, Elsa comes to know the neighbors around her and finds they are far more than a busybody, a drunk, or a monster. They are superheroes all their own, and they are all a part of granny's fairy tale. Backman's use of fairy tales, original ones concocted by Granny, cuts into the grounded real life plot of the book, offering the groundwork for everything that happens outside of them. This wholly unique motif carries the book, the reader and Elsa herself through the trauma of losing a granny, a best friend, and a superhero all in one.

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