![]() ![]() ![]() 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.” But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. ![]() 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. In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. It is a Globe and Mail Best Book, a Canada Reads (CBC Books) 2018 selection and the 2018 winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award (Canada Council for the Arts). Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves is a standalone dystopian novel published in 2017. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |