- This event has passed.
The Ink Drinkers Book Club: Shelby Van Pelt – “Remarkably Bright Creatures”
March 11 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
This week’s selection is Shelby Van Pelt’s book Remarkably Bright Creatures (description below).
Copies of the book may be found in the library during the preceding weeks leading up to the discussion.
The Ink Drinkers always meet every second Monday of each month at 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for a reading discussion. No registration is required!
Description:
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
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.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
