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\nBook Summary:
\nFor fans of&nb sp\;A Man Called Ove\, a charming\, witty and compulsively readab le exploration of friendship\, reckoning\, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus
\nAfter Tova Sulliv an's husband died\, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aq uarium\, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope\, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son\, Erik\, my steriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
\n< p>Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus\, a giant Pacific oc topus 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.\nEver the detec tive\, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. A nd now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. \;
\nShelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard l ook at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
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