And became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence of the Toronto Public Library. You are Indian (Native) and the only ones left that can still dream, it is in the marrow of your bones! Cherie Dimaline is a Me’tis author and editor, in 2014 she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year. But, they are hunting you, they want something from you, and they don’t care how they get it. Everything is gone and has been for a long time. The Water Wars have lasted for teen years and whole cities have fallen into the oceans. The books plot revolves around a futuristic North America. You’re always on the run, never able to rest. The Marrow Thieves is a 2017 Canadian dystopian Indigenous dark fantasy novel by Cherie Dimaline. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks.

You find another family not by blood, but by the need for survival. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Call Number: F DIM (MS Science Fiction) ISBN: 9781770864863 Publication Date: 2017 Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. All you know is to go north because salvation in the north. You have lost your family one by one constantly on the run. Not to mention the polar caps have melted, and it constantly rains. Moreover, it takes you –the reader, into the not so distant future where the Great Lakes of North America are nothing but a gray sludge because of global warming and industrialization. Your DNA weaves them into the marrow like spinners. Review by Anita: “The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way they are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, and their familiar spirits.” – William Burroughs In this particular book, dreams get caught in the webs woven in your bones.

Frenchie and his companions, struggling to survive, don't yet know that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves. The indigenous people are being hunted for their bone marrow because it's the gives the ability to dream. Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. In a world nearly destroyed by global warming, the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream.

The bone marrow thieves