My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
By: Fredrik Backman ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch
Contributors: Koch, Henning, 1962- translator
Edition: First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781501115073; 9781501146619
Subjects: Individuality; Death; Grandparent and child; Girls; Grandmothers; Fiction; Fairy tales; Life change events
Work titles: Min mormor hälsar och saäger förlåt
Description: 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. 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.
Notes: Includes discussion questions.