Arrowhead Lodge Book Discussion - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Wed, Aug 30
|Milton
Gather with other “Arrowhead Lodgers” over craft beer, wine, cider, and more while you discuss the themes of our monthly book! We will also feature a drink selection that relates to the book because….well, why wouldn’t we?! Our next selection is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Time & Location
Aug 30, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Milton, 2 River St, Milton, VT 05468, USA
About the event
Gather with other “Arrowhead Lodgers” over craft beer, wine, cider, and more while you discuss the themes of our monthly book! We will also feature a drink selection that relates to the book because….well, why wouldn’t we?!
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
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…