Her headmaster says she needs to “fall into line” in order to achieve “a better fit with her peers.” Other adults describe her as “very grown-up for her age.” Elsa knows this is just another way of saying “massively annoying for her age,” because they only tend to say this when she corrects them for mispronouncing “déjà vu” or not being able to tell the difference between “me” and “I” at the end of a sentence. She knows she isn’t especially good at being seven. That’s what Elsa’s granny says, at least.Įlsa is seven, going on eight.
That’s just how it is.Īnyone who doesn’t agree needs their head examined. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry 1Įvery seven-year-old deserves a superhero. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different. 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. 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. When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. 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.
She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy-as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.Įlsa is seven years old and different.
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