02233cam a2200421 i 4500 1866213462 TxAuBib 20250120120000.0 211206s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021043416 9780063204157 hardcover 0063204150 hardcover 40031265485 (OCoLC)1262965821 TxAuBib rda Van Pelt, Shelby. Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Shelby Van Pelt. First edition. New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] ©2022. 360 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Read with Jenna" -- Page 1 of cover. 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. 20250120. Octopuses Fiction. Widows Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Missing persons Investigation Fiction. Mystery fiction. gsafd Animal fiction. Novels. Fiction. fast LAKCL