Adult Book Club at the M.S. Kirby Library

This month we will be reading "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. Please stop by the Library, or call (570-474-9313), to register.

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.

You may also like the following events from Marian Sutherland Kirby Library:

• This Tuesday, 13th May, 05:00 pm, The Energy Detectives in Mountain Top
• This Tuesday, 13th May, 06:00 pm, May Middle School Book Club Gr 6-8 in Mountain Top
• This Saturday, 17th May, 10:00 am, Furry Tails in Mountain Top