Literary Fiction · Free kit
Remarkably Bright Creatures
In the coastal town of Sowell Bay, seventy-year-old widow Tova Sullivan cleans the aquarium after hours — partly for the paycheck, mostly to keep grief from swallowing the nights. There she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who sees far more than his captors realize. When a lost young man arrives searching for the father who abandoned him, three lonely lives begin to braid together — and an old mystery about Tova’s missing son starts to surface.
“We are all of us a little remarkable, if only we look closely enough.”
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Remarkably Bright Creatures Printables
Get the full printable pack on Etsy, or print individual pages from Bingo, Discussion Questions, and Hosting.
Book club invite
Printable invite with the kit’s debate hook about brief connections that leave deep marks.
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Character profile cards
Tova, Marcellus, Cameron, Ethan, Avery, and Jeanne — ready to cut and pass around.
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Favorite Marcellus quote cards
Blank cards for guests to write the line that stayed with them.
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Bingo cards
24 book-specific squares mixing in-the-book moments and at-the-meeting reactions.
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Hosting checklist
Shopping list, day-of timeline, surprise touch, and wrap-up prompts on one page.
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Review sheet
Likes/dislikes scorecard for characters, plot, ending, and tears shed over an octopus.
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