My Grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry ~ Fredrik Backman

Title: My Grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry

Author: Fredrik Backman

Translator: Henning Koch

Original Language: Swedish

Genre: Domestic Fiction, Novel

“Because all seven year olds deserve Superheroes. And whoever disagrees with that need their head examined.”

Elsa is 7 and different and Granny is 77 and crazy. And she is Elsa’s best friend. Granny tells Elsa stories from the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas and several other kingdoms where people have superpowers.

Its one of the kindest, warmest, sweet-like-sugar book I have read in a while. The story gets dark every now and then only to make the light brighter.

This story has a lot of superheroes. Wurse the dog; Monster (an enormous but silent man with a violent past and a marshmallow heart); Britt-Marrie (the bat), Halfie (Elsa’s half brother), the cab driver, mom, dad, George, Maud, Lisette, Kent, the boy with a syndrome, the Pteropist (the woman with the black skirt). They all have their own superpowers of which even they are unaware of. When Granny passes, she leave Elsa on a treasure hunt of finding the superpowers within these people and saving the castle like a knight does. Elsa gets on the quest like a pro and overcomes her worst fears to do what she had to.

This is a fairy tale chock full of wonder, love, friendship, bravery, grief, purity and magnificence for adults and kids alike.

This book really warmed my heart from inside out. I do feel that it is a bit difficult to navigate through the Land of Almost-Awake if you don’t have an imagination like that of Fredrik Backman. But he is a master writer. His creativity is so fluid and vivid that he can take you inside the head of a 7 year old in the middle of an adult fairy tale. That is his superpower.

Claps, claps, claps for this one.