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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Shelby Van Pelt
Genre : Fiction
This is a quirky, heartwarming book about Tova, the oldest employee working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. After her husband died, and to keep busy, she began working nights mopping floors, wiping down glass, and emptying trash cans. She befriends Marcellus the giant Pacific octopus who tends to escape his tank at times. Because Marcellus can sneak out from his tank, once in a while he supplements his foul diet of herring with a crab or sea cucumber from the other tanks. He also collects things, especially bright, shiny things. It is in this way that he eventually helps Tova answer some questions about the mysterious death of her son, Erik, some thirty years earlier. The “remarkably bright creatures” on Mardcellus’s plaque outside his tank is wonderfully paid back at the end of the book.
“I found it on the floor near the place where she stores her things while she cleans. I should not have taken it, but I could not resist. I stashed it in my den in the deepest cranny of the hollowed rock, that even the most thorough tank cleaners cannot reach. What sort of treasures, you ask? Three glass marbles, two plastic superheroes, one emerald solitaire ring. Four credit cards and a driver’s license. Earrings—many single earrings, never a pair. Two devices for which I do not know the human word—plugs? Humans stick them in the orifices of their youngest children to quiet them.”
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