The release date for the English version of 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' by
Shelby Van Pelt is May 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
11 minutes and 16 hours
A fascinating, funny, and engrossing novel about friendship, reckoning, and hope that follows a widow's strange bond with a massive Pacific octopus, perfect for readers of A Man Called Ove.
Following her husband's passing, Tova Sullivan started working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, cleaning and scrubbing floors. She's always found that keeping herself busy helps her deal with the disappearance of her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, aboard a boat in Puget Sound more than thirty years ago.
Tova gets to know curmudgeonly Marcellus, the aquarium's enormous Pacific octopus. Marcellus is more knowledgeable than anybody could ever know, but he would never consider giving up one of his eight limbs to his human captors—that is, until he befriends Tova.
Marcellus, who has always been a detective, figures out what transpired the evening Tova's son vanished. And now, before it's too late, Marcellus has to uncover the truth for her using every maneuver his aged invertebrate body can do.
The gentle lesson found in Shelby Van Pelt's first book is that sometimes a future that seemed unattainable in the past might be revealed by looking closely at it.