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\nRemarkably Bright Creatu res\, an exploration of friendship\, reckoning\, and hope\, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
\nAfter T ova Sullivan's husband died\, she began working the night shift at the Sow ell 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 a go.
\nTova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus\, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone c an imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his hum an captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
\nEver the detective\, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disa ppeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.
\nShel by 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 im possible.
\n--From Goodreads.com
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