Remarkably Bright Creatures is the first novel by American author Shelby Van Pelt. It tells the story of three troubled beings: a young man, an old woman, and a giant Pacific octopus. They meet in the setting of an aquarium. The story introduces Tova Sullivan, a 70-year-old woman whose son disappeared many years earlier in an accident at sea. Recently, she also lost her husband. To deal with her sadness, she takes a job as a cleaner at an aquarium. Cameron, a young man who was abandoned by his mother at the age of nine and never knew his father, has gone through many challenges in his life.
《明亮燦爛的你》是美國作家雪比．范．裴特的第一本小說。它講述了三個深感苦惱的生物的故事：一名年輕人、一位老婦人和一隻北太平洋巨型章魚。他們在水族館的場景中相遇。故事介紹了七十歲的婦人托娃．蘇利文，她的兒子多年前在一起海上事故中失蹤。最近，她也失去了丈夫。為了排解悲傷，她找了一份在水族館當清潔工的工作。卡麥隆是個在九歲被母親遺棄並從未見過父親的年輕人，他的人生經歷了許多挑戰。
生活必備字詞：
troubled a. 苦惱的
recently adv. 最近
go through... 經歷……
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