Name: Savvy Book - REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by SHELBY VAN PELT
Start: 2025-11-08T16:15:00.000Z
Location: River North

**Hello Savvy Readers!**
**As a follow up to our last voting round, our next book is...**

**\*\*\*REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by SHELBY VAN PELT \*\*\***
[Explore on Storygraph!](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a5da6127-beb2-44b9-aba6-f63de4327707)
[Goodreads page here! ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58733693-remarkably-bright-creatures?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=129b2X5dUQ&rank=1)

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* Please see Story Graph and Goodreads links above & below
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* Audio listeners encouraged and welcome.
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Newcomers are always welcome, hope to see you soon!
Regards,
Maria

**\*\*\*REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by SHELBY VAN PELT \*\*\***

***A charming, witty, and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces 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 the 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 tentacles for his human captors—until he forms an unlikely 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.

[Explore on Storygraph!](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a5da6127-beb2-44b9-aba6-f63de4327707)
[Goodreads page here! ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58733693-remarkably-bright-creatures?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=129b2X5dUQ&rank=1)

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