![]() ![]() Driven to flight, a fifteen-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones and take refuge from the “recruiters” who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing “factories.” But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. The only people still able to dream are North America’s Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. ![]() In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. It is a Globe and Mail Best Book, a Canada Reads (CBC Books) 2018 selection and the 2018 winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award (Canada Council for the Arts). Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves is a standalone dystopian novel published in 2017. ![]()
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