The Marrow Thieves
2017 • 234 pages
Ratings55
Average rating3.9
15
Ratings55
Average rating3.9
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. 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. But getting the marrow, and with it the dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. 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."
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2 primary booksThe Marrow Thieves is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Cherie Dimaline.
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Dystopian YA with Indigenous people protagonists in the area where today is Canada. It is a climate change dystopia focusing on this group of Indigenous people who are being hunted. After the climate change cataclysm people lost their ability to dream, but Indigenous people were still able to do it, so they are chased for it. It uses real world facts like the atrocities committed against the Indigenous population to basically remove children form their culture to make them assimilate the “Canadian” one (from around 1876 to 1970's).
With this horrifying background and a devastated world the book is extremely emotional. It was a hard read at times with dark moments. But it is also hopeful showing the power of resilience and community.
Like Station 11. Not so much about the dystrophic world but the people (Indigenous/First Nation) affected by that world.
I read it but heard audiobook is really good.
Culturally interesting and informative but lacking in plot pacing and urgency.
