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Fredrik Backman

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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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.Elsa is seven years old and different. 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. 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 letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and totally ordinary old crones, but…
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  • Kooswardini Wulandarishared an impression7 years ago
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable
    🐼Fluffy
    💧Soppy

    I've become emotionally attached to all the characters in this book, in a very short time.

  • aicirtaPshared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🎯Worthwhile
    🐼Fluffy
    💧Soppy

  • Olga Gshared an impression2 years ago
    💞Loved Up
    🌴Beach Bag Book

Quotes

  • Варяhas quoted7 years ago
    Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits. She thinks that this will have to be the moral of this story.
  • Kooswardini Wulandarihas quoted7 years ago
    Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”
  • Rebecahas quoted2 years ago
    It’s difficult to say for sure whether Granny is a bit odd because she’s spent too much time in Miamas, or Miamas is a bit odd because Granny’s spent too much time there.

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