My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

This one took me a while to get into, but it turned out to be a sweet story. It portrayed the messiness, pain, and sorrow of life through the eyes of a feisty 7 year old as she gets to know her eclectic neighbors. Three quotes from the book really hit home for me:

1) If you don't like people, they can't hurt you.

2) Death's greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.

3) If people you like have been shits on earlier occasions, you have to learn to carry on liking them. You'd quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who had some point have been shits.