Remarkably Bright Creatures

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Remarkably Bright Creatures



Shelby Van Pelt
Published Date : 2022-05-03
Amazon

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For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow’s unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium–and the truths she finally uncovers about her son’s disappearance thirty years ago. After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in the Puget Sound over thirty years ago. As she works, Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight tentacles for his human captors–until he forms an unlikely friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. As his affection for Tova grows, Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late. Charming, compulsively readable, and full of wit, Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a beautiful exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope–a reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.


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Marcellus
Tova
friendship
Pacific
giant
years
night
debut
As
thirty
son
ago
octopus
working
busy
invertebrate
truth
mopping
wouldnt
Bay
hard
trick
unearth
cope
died
compulsively
reluctantly
husband
full
Called
Sowell
Erik
Keeping
helped
body
Aquarium
uncover
truths
Ove
wit
forms
Van
detective
Puget
Charming
taking
A
living
muster
future
tidying
Shelby
uncovers
fans
Man
exploration
mysteriously
began
finally
felt
imagine
Ever
widows
residing
Pelts
hope–a
eighteen-year-old
reckoning
happened
floors
Tovas
grows
Sound
beautiful
tentacles
human
captors–until
curmudgeonly
shift
vanished
disappeared
readable
sons
aquarium–and
impossible
For
disappearance
past
lifting
luminous
late
reminder
dream
shes
works
acquainted
Sullivans
boat
affection
After
deduces
aquarium
local

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