Binding: Hardcover
Description: AN Instant NEW YORK Times Bestseller Soon to be a Netflix Film A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Named A BEST BOOK OF Summer by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * US a Today Remarkably Bright Creatures is an ultimately feel - good but deceptively sensitive debut . Memorable and tender. Washington Post 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.
Title: Remarkably Bright Creatures A Novel
Author(s): Pelt Shelby Van
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063204157
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/3/2022