DB Outreach: Four Seasons Book Club for Adults – Virtual

DB’s Outreach team is excited to host our quarterly virtual book club for all adults!

Our featured book is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Join us for this tasty book and perhaps you will prepare a recipe or two before we come together to discuss the book. Please see below for details about the book.

Join us this Winter – Thursday, February 8th at 8:30pm ET/ 7:30pm CT / 6:30pm MT / 5:30pm PT

If you are interested in joining us, please email us at dbinfo@discoverybound.org and we will add you to the participant list.

The Zoom information for the Book Club meeting will be sent approximately one week before our meeting.

There will be an opportunity for you to share your favorite passages or moments from the book with the group (consider marking them in your book or writing it down along with the page number).

Book overview:

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces 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.