The Marrow Thieves

234 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2017 by Dancing Cat Books, an imprint of Cormorant Books Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-77086-486-3
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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 with it the 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."

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I was almost late for my morning bike ride to work because I HAD to finish this book and wow, I can't praise this story enough.

In the near-future dystopia of The Marrow Thieves , where global warming has ravaged the planet and humans have lost the ability to dream, we follow a group of Indigenous people on the run from Recruiters- members of an organization who kidnap Indigenous people and harvest their bone marrow, the key component that allows people to dream again. There's a LOT to process in this book: not only the horror of harvesting people for their bone marrow, but uncovering the layers of persecution and generational trauma that haunt the last groups of Indigenous people as they try to save their history, culture, and their lives. Instead of being stolen away and sent to Quaker schools for "re-education", this time, First Nations and Indigenous people …

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Subjects

  • Young adult fiction
  • Indians of North America
  • Bone marrow
  • Global warming
  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Procurement of organs, tissues
  • Dreams

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