Helen Symonds Book Group

The Helen Symonds Book Group meets in the Library Program Room

at 1:00 pm on the first Wednesday of every month.

Everyone is welcome to join the group.

If interested, please call the Library at (508)634-2209 to request a copy of the discussion book.

The Helen Symonds Book Group will meet Wednesday, February 7 at 1:00 pm in the Library meeting room. We will discuss Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. “Marcellus is a giant Pacific octopus living in the Puget Sound's Sowell Bay Aquarium. He is befriended by Tova, the 70-year-old widow who cleans the aquarium and shines the glass of Marcellus's tank. Tova still grieves the disappearance of her only child Erik 30 years earlier, and the recent death of her husband. Cam, a rock musician who's lost his band, his job, and his girlfriend, finds the Sowell Bay High School class ring of his long-gone mother and heads out to track down the father he never knew and finds a temporary job at the aquarium. Van Pelt has written an irresistibly wonderful, warm, funny, heartbreaking novel, full of gentle people (and one octopus) bravely powering through their individual scars left by lives that have beaten them up but have not brought them down.”- adapted from CWMARS catalog