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Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel (Deluxe Edition)

This deluxe edition features sprayed and stenciled edges, silver foil, and a reading group guide.

A New York Times Bestseller * A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick

Soon to be a Netflix Film

Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender.” —Washington Post 

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.

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384 pages

Average rating: 8.19

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Community Reviews

DARLINGNikki
Aug 05, 2024
9/10 stars
This is definitely one for audible if you found it hard to read. Hearing Marcellus was awesome!
tianadottin
Aug 14, 2023
5/10 stars
Read February 2023 I don’t get the hype with this book. It was fine but solidly average. I expected much more.
Meli55a
Sep 19, 2024
1/10 star
This book was extremely boring. I figured out the plot by the second chapter and wouldn't have bothered to finish reading it, except it was for book club.
Fantasyfanatic078
Jul 24, 2024
3/10 stars
Couldn't get into this book. I was 25% in and it wasn't catching my interest.
haleyroberts
Jul 11, 2024
1/10 star
This book literally put me into a reading slump.

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