"Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt is a remarkable book, pun intended. It's "that octopus book" as people refer to it, but it's not about an octopus - not only about an octopus. It's about people finding themselves, finding each other, finding happiness. It's a gentle, hopeful, uplifting bok.
I can't wait for the sequel, which will be set in the same smaal town.
Exerpt:
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.
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