Fredrik Backman is a great storyteller and with
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry there is a story within a story. Told from the point of view of Elsa who is almost eight, it moves between her real life in the apartments where she lives, and a fantasy made up by her grandmother in "The Land of Almost Awake." But the land isn't as make believe as she at first believes. After her grandmother's death, Elsa is given the task of delivering letters for her grandmother telling people she is sorry and as she approaches each person Elsa begins to realize the monsters and sea angels not only live in the "Land of Almost Awake" but in the present also.
Along with Elsa's quest she flashes back to times with her beloved granny who "borrows petrol from Elsa's dad's Audi by sucking it out of a plastic tube," and many other outrageous and hilarious escapades she takes her granddaughter on.
Note: Britt Marie is also a resident in the same apartments and leads up to another novel
Britt Marie was Here
