All About Books Book Club

This month we are reading Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.  After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

This first novel by Shelby Van Pelt is about friendship, reckoning, and  hope.
 

All About Books Book Club will meet on Wed. Feb. 21 at 10:30 AM.