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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk with novelist Shelby Van Pelt
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DESCRIPTION:To register\, visit https://libraryc.org/theoceancountylibrary
 /52982.\nhttps://theoceancountylibrary.libnet.info/event/11240056
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>To register\, visit <a href="https://libra
 ryc.org/theoceancountylibrary/52982">https://libraryc.org/theoceancountyli
 brary/52982</a></p>\n<p>We invite you to join us as we chat with the amazi
 ng&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;bestselling author Shelby Van Pelt about her
  beloved novel&nbsp\;Remarkably Bright Creatures. You don&rsquo\;t want to
  miss this deep-dive exploration of friendship\, reckoning\, hope\, and so
  much more!</p>\n<p>Remarkably Bright Creatures&nbsp\;is a luminous debut 
 novel about a widow&rsquo\;s unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octo
 pus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium&mdash\;and the truths she f
 inally uncovers about her son&rsquo\;s disappearance 30 years ago.</p>\n<p
 >After Tova Sullivan&rsquo\;s husband died\, she began working the night s
 hift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium\, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping b
 usy has always helped her cope\, which she&rsquo\;s been doing since her e
 ighteen-year-old son\, Erik\, mysteriously vanished on a boat in the Puget
  Sound over 30 years ago.</p>\n<p>As she works\, Tova becomes acquainted w
 ith curmudgeonly Marcellus\, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquariu
 m. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine\, but wouldn&rsquo\;t drea
 m of lifting one of his eight tentacles for his human captors&mdash\;until
  he forms an unlikely friendship with Tova.</p>\n<p>Ever the detective\, M
 arcellus deduces what happened the night Tova&rsquo\;s son disappeared. As
  his affection for Tova grows\, Marcellus must use every trick his old\, i
 nvertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it&rsquo\;
 s too late.</p>\n<p>Charming\, compulsively readable\, and full of wit\, S
 helby Van Pelt&rsquo\;s debut novel is a beautiful exploration of friendsh
 ip\, reckoning\, and hope&ndash\;a reminder that sometimes taking a hard l
 ook at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible. Regis
 ter now for a conversation you just don't want to miss!</p>\n<p>About the 
 Author: Shelby Van Pelt&rsquo\;s debut novel\, REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
 \, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in Spring 
 2022 and was an Instant&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;bestseller and has sold
  a million and a half copies. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest\, s
 he&rsquo\;s now missing the mountains in the Chicago area with her husband
  and two children.</p>\nhttps://theoceancountylibrary.libnet.info/event/11
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