Book Discussion - "Remarkably Bright Creatures" -
Friday, October 24, 2025
5:30 p.m. ish after dine out

Nancy Hanson's place - Click for Google Maps Map
4120 15th Place South
Wisconsin Rapids WI 54494

Book Discussion will start after the dine out - see above listing. Attend either or both.

"Remarkably Bright Creatures", a novel by Shelby Van Pelt. This 368-page book has been on the New York Times bestseller list multiple times.

Remarkably Bright Creatures is about a widow and her unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took up night shifts mopping floors and tidying up at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Keeping busy has always been her way of coping, especially after her 18-year-old son Erik mysteriously disappeared on a boat in Puget Sound over 30 years ago. She becomes acquainted with Marcellus – a curmudgeonly giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. He knows more than anyone could imagine, but he wouldn’t lift any of his 8 arms for his human captors until he starts a friendship with Tova. Marcellus, ever the detective, deduces what happened the night of Erik’s vanishing, and he must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster in order to discover the truth before it’s too late. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58733693-remarkably-bright-creatures

Contact: Nancy Hanson
715-887-4368