Abandoned in childhood by a mysterious father and drug addict mother, Cameron is down to his last four dollars when he gets a job filling in at the Sowell aquarium. Meanwhile, Cameron is a thirty-year-old failure-to-launch character. Marcellus has knowledge that can mend Tova’s heart, but how to convey it without being able to speak? And he’s on a very short timeline. His observations about humans are spot on. Marcellus is a point-of-view character in this book, and he’s so smart…if he were human, his IQ would probably be around 150. Stoic and resolute, she works at the city aquarium as a cleaning woman, where she befriends Marcellus, a Giant Pacific Octopus. Tova, 70, is struggling with widowhood and the mysterious disappearance and presumed death of her adult son. A 70-year-old woman, grieving the loss of her husband and adult son, finds healing thanks to her unusual friend at the aquarium.
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