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Remarkably Bright Creatures A Novel

Shelby Van Pelt

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 boa...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was described as a feel-good book with a mystery involving an old lady, an octopus, and the disappearance of her son, ultimately having a positive outcome.

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Oh, I read a really good book that's like a feel good book. So I wanted to pass that along. Yes. Called Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

— Episode: 366 - High-Pitched Goodbye

Episode: 366 - High-Pitched Goodbye

It was described as a feel-good book with a mystery involving an old lady, an octopus, and the disappearance of her son, ultimately having a positive outcome.

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Oh, I read a really good book that's like a feel good book. So I wanted to pass that along. Yes. Called Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

And it's essentially about an old lady, right? Who they live in this small beach town. She is the night cleaner of the town's aquarium. There's an octopus who lives there who's like super smart and remarkably bright creature and they become friends.

But there's also like a mystery. Her son went missing and all this shit. And the octopus knows what happened to her son and has to like figure out a way to octopus tell her.

And it's also like super heart wrenching, but you know, it's going to turn out good in the end. And it totally does. It's like a tear jerker.

That's the last line of that book, right? And that's the day. And then it's a link to the Netflix movie.

The Ezra Klein Show

She said it was a lovely story about a woman finding companionship with an octopus that brought her a lot of joy during a lonely time.

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Remarkably Bright Creatures, which is this, like, lovely story about a woman who finds companionship with an octopus. ... it brought me a lot of joy.

— Episode: Trump vs. the U.S. Economy

Episode: Trump vs. the U.S. Economy

She said it was a lovely story about a woman finding companionship with an octopus that brought her a lot of joy during a lonely time.

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Remarkably Bright Creatures, which is this, like, lovely story about a woman who finds companionship with an octopus. ... it brought me a lot of joy.

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