Morning Book Club: “Remarkably bright creatures”

Thursday, November 9, 2023
10:00 am - 11:00 am

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• Adult
• Book Clubs & Author Talks
• Featured

This month our featured book will be Remarkably Bright Creatures: a Novel by Shelby Van Pelt.

This charming debut novel is a New York Times Best Seller, a Read with Jenna pick, and a nominee for the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards.

A luminous debut novel about a widow’s unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium—and, when a mysterious grifter comes to town, the truths all three unlock about her son’s disappearance 30 years ago.

Charming, compulsively readable, and full of wit, Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a beautiful exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope—a reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

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We will meet in the upstairs Gallery space from 10 – 11 am, and our Morning Book Club is open to one and all, whether or not you are a Morristown or Morris Township resident.  Please feel free to join us even if you didn’t get a chance to finish the book. Copies of the book are reserved for Book Club members at the main circulation desk.  Ask a librarian for a copy.  If you have any questions about this book club, please email morristownreaders@mmt.mainlib.org with the subject line “Morning Book Club”.

We look forward to seeing you then!