Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
Book Overview
In Sowell Bay’s dim aquarium, Tova Sullivan, a widowed night cleaner, scrubs floors to quiet grief. Her routine fractures when she bonds with Marcellus, a brilliant giant Pacific octopus whose days in captivity ebb fast. A drifter, Cameron Cassmore, arrives hunting the father he never met, and Marcellus—ever watchful—threads clues that tie Cameron’s search to Tova’s buried loss. As the octopus weakens, he must find a way to signal what he knows, a revelation that could unseal the past, mend two broken lives, and shape a family neither expects.
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