Storyteller Book Club Meeting

Join us for Storyteller Book Club’s Spring 2025 session with our next meeting: Sunday, June 1st 3-4 p.m. at Fireside Winery in Marengo. This month’s book is Remarkable Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Please read the book prior to the meeting and come ready to discuss. Feel free to grab a glass of wine or an appetizer on your way in. Anyone is welcome to join in on the fun!

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.

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