![]() ![]() Marcellus-a thief, escape artist with a mission, and brilliant observer of human behavior-narrates his chapters with a whip-smart wit born of his nine brains, three hearts, and the impatient urgency of wanting to help his beloved Tova before his time runs out. Cam’s hard-luck life follows him north, and he eventually crosses paths with Tova when he is hired to take over her duties as she recovers from a workplace injury. Hundreds of miles away in California, Cam, a rock musician who’s lost his band, his job, and his girlfriend, finds the Sowell Bay High School class ring of his long-gone mother and heads out to track down the father he never knew. Van Pelt grew up in the Pacific Northwest, this is her debut novel. 184,808 ratings25,880 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fiction (2022), Nominee for Best Debut Novel (2022) 11 hours, 16 minutes For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. Tova still grieves the disappearance of her only child Erik 30 years earlier, and the more recent death of her husband. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt is a charming novel telling of a friendship between an elderly widow and a giant Pacific octopus. ![]() He is befriended by Tova, the 70-year-old widow who cleans the aquarium and shines the glass of Marcellus’s tank. DEBUT Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living in the Puget Sound’s Sowell Bay Aquarium, is running on borrowed time as he nears the end of his life. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Goodreads Jump to ratings and reviews Want to read Kindle 14.99 Rate this book Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 4. ![]()
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