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My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry : a novel / Fredrik Backman ; [translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch].

My grandmother asked me to tell you she is sorry (other title)
Backman, Fredrik, 1981- (author.). Koch, Henning, 1962- (translator.).

Summary:

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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1501115065
  • ISBN: 9781501115066
  • ISBN: 9781501115073
  • ISBN: 1501115073
  • Physical Description: 372 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher and paging may vary.
Includes discussion questions.
Orignally published as: Min mormor hälsar och saäger förlåt. Stockholm : Månpocket, 2013.
Translation originally published: Great Britain : Hodder & Stoughton, 2014.
Target Audience Note:
850L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 17 198144.
Original Version Note:
Originally published as: Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt. Stockholm : Månpocket, 2013.

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Subject:
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
Grandmothers > Death > Fiction.
Girls > Fiction.
Individuality > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Girls.
Genre:
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 86 of 114 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 3 of 4 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Jacksonville Main Library FIC BACKMAN (Text) 36015000218806 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/11/2026
Richlands Branch Library FIC BACKMAN (Text) 36015001488499 Adult Fiction Available -
Sneads Ferry Branch Library FIC BACKMAN (Text) 36015001183835 Adult Fiction Available -
Swansboro Branch Library FIC BACKMAN (Text) 36015000828000 Adult Fiction Available -