

The two begin an unlikely friendship.Įach week, Tova meets with her friends in a seniors’ social club they call the “Knit-Wits.” The other women express concern over Tova’s job. She helps free him, and Marcellus recognizes that without Tova, he would have died. On one occasion, Tova finds him tangled in knotted cables in the director’s office. Marcellus has learned how to escape from his enclosure and travels through the aquarium looking for snacks. She enjoys conversing with the aquarium’s octopus, Marcellus-an unusually intelligent creature who speaks directly to the reader about his captive circumstances.

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