The "Coast Road" Leads to "Grandmother"

I finished reading Coast Road    by Barbara Delinsky on Tuesday.  This isn't the first novel by her that I have read, but it was my least favorite.  Rachel is in a coma, stemming from a car accident, for the majority of the story, but both the reader and Jack (Rachel's ex-husband) learn about Rachel's life through her daughters, her artwork, and her friends.  There was a little side story romance between one of Rachel's friends and a doctor, but even that romance was hindered by that fact that Katherine (Rachel's friend)  was a breast cancer survivor and self-conscious about her body and her femininity.  I am grateful that I previously acquainted myself with Barbara Delinsky by reading An Irresistible Impulse, Together Alone, & Moment To Moment.  If I had read  Coast Road  first, I never would have read the other three.  Coast Road was my least favorite book by Barbara Delinsky, and I am relieved to be done with it!  That being said, I'm looking forward to taking a "journey" through My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry  by Fredrik Backman.  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 misfits, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones, but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.  At its heart, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry    is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.  Having lost my own grandmother, who was also my best friend, I expect to be able to relate to the story.  However, unlike Elsa, I was an adult (Age 30) when Grandma died.  I still miss her, but perhaps I can reconnect with her during this "Journey Through A Book!"