A review by nancykecso
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

4.0

I am currently on a Fredrik Backman spree. After reading A Man Called Ove, I have been enjoying his other books as well. Like Ove, this story deals with someone who is still living but is mourning someone who has died. In this case, the survivor is a very precocious seven year old Elsa who is missing her grandmother. Elsa is very different from her peers and because of this has been persecuted by them. Her grandmother was able to deflect a lot of the hurt inflicted upon Elsa by distracting her with fairy tales. After the grandmother dies, she still is able to help Elsa with letters that she wrote before she died. The lines between the made up world of the fairy tales and reality are blurred throughout the story, making it entertaining and also difficult to read.