Release Date:- 2022-05-03
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A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
āRemarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.ā -- Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus
After Tova Sullivanās 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 sheās been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldnāt dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captorsāuntil he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tovaās son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before itās too late.
Shelby Van Peltās debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.