Tova is a quiet, hardworking woman who still mourning the loss of her 18 year old son and more, recently, her husband. She has taken a job as a night janitor at the Sowell Bay Aquarium in order to keep busy. Marcellus is the resident Giant Pacific Octopus in the aquarium. And Cameron is an unmoored young man whose search for information about his parents leads him to Sowell Bay. What would have been a perfectly nice little story about people finding and making family […]

After watching My Octopus Teacher on Netflix and reading Montgomery Sy’s The Soul of an Octopus, (which was interesting, even though I had some problems with it), I’ve grown very fond of octopuses. They are smart, curious, have brains in their legs, can change colors, and can squeeze through almost any tiny hole. They recognize and remember people and will treat the ones they like differently. So, when I saw that Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) by Shelby Van Pelt had an octopus as a narrator, I was immediately intrigued. However, […]