My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

Being a middle school librarian, I primarily read young adult fiction. This book was at first a bit confusing, not as easy to follow as a young adult plot. The parallel story-lines of Elsa and her grandmother and then the story-line of the Land-of-Almost-Awake were at first odd and unrelated. As the story progresses, the reader realizes that the grandmother uses the tales of the Land-of-Almost-Awake to tell her young granddaughter, Elsa, about the real world. I feel it is important to know that this book was translated from Swedish; and although it is not stated out right, I believe it is set in Sweden. I would recommend this book. It is surprisingly not too sad or heavy considering that the grandmother dies.