My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
A Novel
A precocious seven-year-old delivers her late grandmother's letters of apology around her apartment building, and discovers who her neighbors really are.
Elsa is seven, going on eight, and her best friend is her eccentric grandmother, who tells her fairy tales set in the Land-of-Almost-Awake. When her grandmother dies, she leaves Elsa a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, and delivering them takes Elsa into the lives of her neighbors and the true stories behind the fairy tales. Published in Swedish in 2013 and in English in 2015, it was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
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