What initially kept me invested in this story was Joan Walker's amazing narration.
I have always found this to be good for me. Sometimes we just need to push ourselves to do something that is not in our comfort zone. I did finish this book and am so glad I did. Yes, there were times when I contemplated quitting and felt quite disappointed. I really had no idea how much fantasy was in this story when I started my listen. I have tried the genre several times, always convinced that this time it will be different, only to find I can't continue. I have to preface this review by saying that I am not a fantasy lover. It is a story about life and death and an ode to 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 internationally best-selling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. 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 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. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. From the author of the internationally best-selling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales.Įlsa is seven years old and different.
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