Remarkably Bright Creatures

描述

托娃・沙利文的丈夫過世後，她便開始在索威爾灣水族館值夜班，負責拖地打掃。讓自己忙個不停向來是她應對難過的方式 —— 這份習慣，從三十多年前她十八歲的兒子艾瑞克在普吉特灣的一艘船上離奇失蹤時，就已經養成了。
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.