The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
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The Marrow Thieves

Author: Cherie Dimaline

Narrator: Meegwun Fairbrother

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/14/2023

Synopsis

Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden - but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.

About The Author

CHERIE DIMALINE's young adult novel The Marrow Thieves shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 2017, and stayed there for more than a year. It won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize in the young adult literature category, the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and, among other honours, was a fan favourite in the 2018 edition of CBC's Canada Reads. It was also a Book of Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and the CBC. Cherie was named Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Awards for Excellence in the Arts in 2014, and became the first Indigenous writer in residence at the Toronto Public Library. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario, she now lives in Vancouver.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maggie on September 15, 2017

Wow... if you read the back of this book, you might get the sense that The Marrow Thieves is your typical YA dystopia just with Indigenous protagonists. You would be mistaken. The speculative aspects of Dimaline's novel are not particularly important. What shines is the Indigenous narrative about lo......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on June 06, 2017

I first came to know Cherie Dimaline's writing last year, when I read "Legends are Made, Not Born" in Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An LGBT and Two-Spirit Sci Fi Anthology. The character she writes about in that story is named Auntie Dave. I wrote, then, that I had to "just be" with Auntie Dave......more

Goodreads review by Kate on October 06, 2018

Reading this book was kind of like taking medicine. I took it, and maybe it was good for me, but... I really didn't enjoy it. If I read it as a sort of primary document, a study of one Indigenous author's survival fantasies, it's kind of interesting. Obviously residential schools were horrific and le......more

Goodreads review by Emily on March 13, 2018

Nope. This book tried too hard to be deep but wasn’t. The premise was interesting, but the plot just meandered along. There wasn’t any real character development for the main characters, and French suddenly gets jealous, moody and ideas of leadership grandeur two thirds of the way through. Is the lo......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 28, 2024

Grandparents told “residential school stories to scare you into acting right,” “stories about men and women who promised themselves to God only and then took whatever they wanted from the children, especially at night. Stories about a book that was like a vacuum, used to suck the language right out......more

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