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Amazon.com description: Product Description: A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove

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. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. 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.

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.

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. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

“Firmly in league with Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman . . . A touching, sometimes funny, often wise portrait of grief.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Full of heart, hope, forgiveness, and the embracing of differences, Elsa’s story is one that sticks with you long after you’ve turned the last page.”—Library Journal

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780405080852 Book cover for 9781410481917 Book cover for 9781501115066
 
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (September 2, 2015)
9781410481917 | details & prices | 553 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.38 lbs | List price $31.99
About: From the author of the internationally bestselling "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.
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from Atria Books (June 16, 2015)
9781501115066 | details & prices | 372 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $25.00
About: A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove Elsa is seven years old and different.
With Isaac F. Marcosson | from Ayer Co Pub (August 1, 1976); titled "Anaconda"
9780405080852 | details & prices | List price $40.95
This edition also contains Anaconda
Paperback
Book cover for 9781501115073
 
Reprint edition from Washington Square Pr (April 5, 2016)
9781501115073 | details & prices | 372 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.00

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