My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
352 Pages
"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 also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a
grandmother like no other."
A good story with a series of complex and engaging characters and one Wurg.
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Saturday, May 23, 2015
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell She's Sorry
Labels:
Childhood,
Death,
Ed W,
Fairy Tales,
family relationships
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