Published in 2016 by arrangement with Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. -- title page verso

Originally published in Swedish as: Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt. Translated by Henning Koch

"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

Elsa is seven years old; her grandmother is seventy-seven years old. She is 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, the letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and totally ordinary old crones ... but also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other. -- adapted from back cover