Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
Soon to be a Netflix Film
Featuring a New Essay by Shelby Van Pelt About the Film Set
A New York Times Bestseller * A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick
“Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut about what it feels like to have love taken away from you, only to find it again in the most unexpected places. . . . Memorable and tender.” — Washington Post
“Completely charming.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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 mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a brilliant, giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a 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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Community Reviews
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Everyone has their own opinions but I’m so shocked at the people who didn’t like this book!
It blew my mind, I thought it was beautifully written!
You get three POV’s
Tova
Cameron
And Marcellus the Octopus. And from the beginning you know Marcellus doesn’t have much time left.
There was such a good story in this book, Tova is an older woman who works at the aquarium where Marcellus lives so you get an insight on both of them from each other.
Cameron is just a man who’s had shit luck his whole life and dealt a bad hand honestly.
But the way this book ties everything together just blew my mind. It was so beautiful, I felt a ton of emotions throughout all of it, it’s just what I want out of a book. It was such a unique story. I give it 5 stars!
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