Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also 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, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

This is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.

What a lovely book and a good story, like a fairy tale for adults. Both happy and sad, scary and funny. I wish I had a granny like Elsa's. What an adventure it would had been!

Enjoy the story! :)

Thank you very much for the book! I have heard many good things about it and the author so I'm glad I got the chance to read this!

Unfortunately I just couldn't get into this story... I will pass it onwards to a new reader in April.