Meeting Location: Village Branch Library\, after book club discussion we will tour PetSense @ 502 Ann Street\, Suite I\, \;Pickens\, SC 29671
\nThis month we will be reading Remark ably Bright Creatures\, by Shelby Van Pelt.
\nBook Summary:
\nAN INSTANT \;NEW YORK TIMES \;BESTSELLER
\nA Read With Jenna \;Today \;Show Book Club Pick!
\nNAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMME R by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today
\n"Re markably Bright Creatures \;[is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptive ly sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender." -- \;Washington Post& nbsp\;
\nFor fans of \;A Man Called Ove\, a charming\, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship\, reckoning\, and hope th at traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus
\nAfter Tova Sullivan's husband died\, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium\, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy h as 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 thir ty years ago.
\nTova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus\ , a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more tha n anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms f or his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
\nEver the detective\, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova' s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old inverteb rate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.&nb sp\;
\nShelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that somet imes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once fe lt impossible.
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