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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

February 12, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

This book was recommended to me by a friend, who doesn’t usually share my taste in books, but I decided to read it anyway and was kind of disappointed. The Marrow Thieves is dystopian, so I expected it to be right up my alley, but when I read it I was surprised. It’s set at an undefined time in the future where everyone except the Native people have lost the ability to dream. Their ability to dream is stored in their bone marrow so the […]

Native American Science Fiction

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

December 29, 2019 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The Marrow Thieves” is the story of what happens in a future world in which climate change reaches its zenith and normal weather patterns no longer hold up. People are displaced, diseases are rampant, and people stop dreaming. But not Indigenous people. They continue dreaming. History repeats itself in that White governments begin rounding up Indigenous individuals and experiment on them to find the cure to dreamless sleep. We start in media res […]

Hold on tight to your dreams

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

August 18, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr11bingo Own voices Author Cherie Dimaline is a Canadian Metis writer, that is, her heritage is a mix of Indigenous American and European. In The Marrow Thieves, she imagines a grim future where environmental disasters, both man-made and natural, and disease have broken the Earth and most of its people. Government, science and religious leaders turn to Indigenous people for survival, but not in a way that involves respect and collaboration. As they have done throughout history, they aim to take something vitally important from […]

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