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Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

• Literary Fiction
• Contemporary
• Magical Realism
• 2022

In the coastal town of Sowell Bay, seventy-year-old widow Tova Sullivan cleans the aquarium after hours — partly for the paycheck, mostly to keep grief from swallowing the nights. There she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who sees far more than his captors realize. When a lost young man arrives searching for the father who abandoned him, three lonely lives begin to braid together — and an old mystery about Tova’s missing son starts to surface.

“We are all of us a little remarkable, if only we look closely enough.”

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