The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
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 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."
"Witnessing Story and Creating Kinship in a New Era of Residential Schools: Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves"
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 32, no. 3, 2020, pp. 176-200. eLibrary,
Water as 'wahkohtowin' in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves
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