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Fae & Fairy Fiction

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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  • 2015 first published
  • 392 pages
  • ★ 4.2 (16 ratings)
  • 7 editions
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Published in 2015, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is a fae fiction novel by Fredrik Backman. Readers will find themes of Individuality, death, grandparent and child and girls.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 16 ratings, and 111 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 7 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Trade Fiction Paperback bestseller list in 2016.

It runs to roughly 392 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

About My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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. 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.
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Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Trade Fiction Paperback, 2016

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Individuality
  • Death
  • Grandparent and child
  • Girls
  • Grandmothers
  • Fairy tales
  • Life change events
  • Family life
  • Grandparents
  • Grands-parents et enfants
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Grands-mères
  • Mort
  • Filles
  • Individualité
  • Contes de fées

Quick answers

Who wrote My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry?

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry was written by Fredrik Backman and first published in 2015.

What genre is My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry?

It is usually shelved as Fae & Fairy Fiction.

How long is My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry?

The median edition has 392 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry?

Readers who like it often enjoy A Court of Wings and Ruin, The Cricket on the Hearth and Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.

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