Remarkably Bright Creatures

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.