My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A delightful and precocious seven-year-old is our narrator. She is different. She tells you all through the book that she is different. Her best friend is her grandmother who takes her on frequent journeys to the Land of Almost Awake- a land of fantasy. But Grandmother has cancer and spends her last days writing letters to all who she may have offended. She leaves these letters in various places and charges her little granddaughter with delivering them after she is gone. Each letter also contains a charge to the recipient to watch out for her granddaughter.
The book is as different as the child, but somehow it is delightful. It has themes of death and dying, bullying, mystery, family relationships, divorce, society’s outcasts, PTSD, OCD, service, forgiveness (a lot on forgiveness,) etc. There’s a lot in there. But it all weaves together into a wonderful story. I think you would enjoy it. From 4 to 3 stars because of the language.


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