[if IE]> <![endif]An Ode to an Inspirational Grandmother StartFragment In "Because You're the First" my character Kassandra has an amazing relationship with her grandmother. I readily admit the inspiration for the character was my maternal grandmother, Tess Edgerton. Nana was a first generation American. Her mother and father came to the U.S. from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) in 1906; my great-grandmother newly married and pregnant with my grandmother. The young family