That isn’t a bad thing though and for many readers this will be a powerful way to introduce them to a terrible period of Canadian history. The connections aren’t subtle which reminded me frequently that this is a YA fic. Sound familiar? Obviously it’s meant to and Dimaline draws broadly on the real life history of residential schools in Canada and the atrocities committed there. Only the Indigenous peoples have kept their dreams and it isn’t long until they are rounded up and imprisoned in schools where, rumour has it, they are harvested for their marrow. Most dangerous of all, people have stopped dreaming. People have been pushed into cities where disease and violence reigns. Climate change has changed the boundaries of city and country, as well as the land itself. This is a dystopian young adult fiction set in the near future. They are pushing north, seeking safety and community, always on the lookout for those who want to hunt them for their very marrow. Frenchie meets up with a group of other travellers, a ragtag gang ranging from seven-year-old Riri to their elder, Minerva. His father disappeared years earlier and his mother is gone. The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline (Dancing Cat Books, 2017)įrenchie is barely a teenager when he is separated from his brother and left to fend for himself, running from The Recruiters.
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