Remarkably Bright Creatures by Sh elby Van Pelt is available as a print book\, an e-book\, a downloadable audiobook\, a preloade d audiobook\, an audiobook CD\, and as a large print book in the Library's col lection.
\n"Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son dis appeared decades ago. So when her husband dies\, she takes a job at the aq uarium\, where she meets Marcellus\, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son. For fans of A Man Called Ove\, a charming\, witty an d compulsively readable exploration of friendship\, reckoning\, and hope t hat traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus Afte r Tova Sullivan's husband died\, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium\, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has alwa ys helped her cope\, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old so n\, Erik\, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty year s ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus\, a giant Pacif ic octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can im agine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human ca ptors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detectiv e\, 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 n ovel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past ca n help uncover a future that once felt impossible."
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