So when Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, it marks the beginning of Elsa's greatest adventure. There everybody is different, and nobody needs to be normal. She is also Elsa's best and only friend.Īt night Elsa runs to her grandmother's stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy. Something Elsa can't quite put her finger on.Įlsa is seven years old and different. But lately the stories have another dimension as well. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, to get her to practise Granny's secret language, and a little because Granny is just about as nutty as a granny should be. Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. The hilarious, heart-breaking novel by the author of the international best seller A Man Called Ove.
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