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A transformative 300-mile walk along Japan’s ancient pilgrimage routes inspires a heartrending remembrance of a long-lost friend in this compelling memoir.
Shelby Van Pelt’sRemarkably Bright Creatures is a charming, witty, and compulsively readable story of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
