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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a ... debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium--and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
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I was skeptical about an octopus POV character but Marcellus is the most compelling narrator I've encountered all year. Van Pelt uses his observations of the aquarium visitors to reflect human behavior back at us in the most cutting, tender way. Tova's grief, Cameron's aimlessness, and the mystery c...
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Humans are remarkably bright creatures. But they are also spectacularly dim.
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Marcellus · page 12
Marcellus the octopus narrating human behavior with detached scientific precision while clearly caring deeply? Van Pelt invented a new kind of unreliable narrator and I am obsessed.
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Other editions
- Audiobook · 368 pages · HarperLuxe
- Audiobook · 388 pages · Bloomsbury Publishing
