![]() On his journey, he meets another diverse group of Indigenous survivors, who temporarily adopt him into their family in order to travel together safely. The fast-paced story is told from the perspective of a fifteen-year old Indigenous boy named Frenchie, who is on the run from Recruiters, and is separated from his brother, Mitch. They believe that this is the only way to help salvage the rest of humanity before everyone else loses their minds, and they descend into further chaos. ![]() Therefore, the Canadian government has deployed “Recruiters” (aka the “marrow thieves”) to find and capture Indigenous people so that they can extract their bone marrow and use it to find a cure or treatment for people who can no longer dream. That’s where they live, in that marrow there” (Dimaline, 2017, p. It is explained that “dreams get caught in the webs woven in bones. The only people who still have the ability to dream are Indigenous people. As a result, the majority of the population has lost the ability to dream, and are now experiencing severe psychological distress, which makes them difficult to govern. ![]() The water level is rising, continents are being fully submerged, and everyone is forced to migrate in order to survive. “The Marrow Thieves,” by Cherie Dimaline, is a young adult novel that is set in an apocalyptic dystopian future where Canada has been so damaged by global warming that everyone has been impacted by the consequences. ![]()
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