The Campus Community Book Club's April read is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. 

We will meet IN PERSON on Tuesday, April 16th at 12 p.m. in the Rowley Center for Science and Engineering, 10 East Conkling Avenue, Room 111. We will also be on ZOOM.  Please contact mariannesciucco@sunyorange.edu for the meeting link.

About the Book

For fans of A Man Called Ove, 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 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. 

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.

The book is available through the Ramapo Catskill Library System and your favorite bookseller.

We hope to see you there!

Upcoming Reads

May                Oath and Honor, Liz Cheney

June               Tom Lake, Ann Patchett

July                The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

August            Enough, Cassidy Hutchinson

September      North Woods, Daniel Mason

October           Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride

November       The Book of Two Ways, Jodi Picoult

December       Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See