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Remarkably Bright Creatures

Remarkably Bright Creatures Hardcover - 2022

by Shelby Van Pelt

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Sometimes a short synopsis is all you need: A detective octopus helps a grieving aquarium employee solve the mystery of her missing son. It's certainly unique in vessel, but the themes of coping, recovering, and moving forward resonate whether you have two arms or eight. 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 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 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 wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
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  • Title Remarkably Bright Creatures
  • Author Shelby Van Pelt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, USA
  • Date 2022
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Remarkably Bright Creatur
  • ISBN 9780063204157 / 0063204150
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and sons, Widows
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021043416
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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