It is about caring, about love, about how people can continue, and will continue.I highly recommend The Marrow Thieves. It will resonate with other Native readers, too.This story is one I'm carrying. a riveting, adventure-packed coming-of-age story whose orphaned hero, an Indigenous 16-year-old boy known as Frenchie, makes an arduous northward journey to what he and his companions hope will be relative safety, and finds community and culture in the face of violence and dehumanization., Cherie Dimaline creates a near-future world which distinctly echoes our own, current and past traumas that have come back to repeat themselves, fiction with a basis in reality that gives the narrative a sheen of hard truths, following the trials and tribulations of a relatable cast of characters and their struggles to survive, and live their lives with the love and safety denied to them., Dimaline's story resonates with me.
A dystopian world that is all too real and that has much to say about our own." Starred review. A riveting science fiction novel that is a must-buy for any library seeking to expand their teen collections., "Miigwans is a true hero in him Dimaline creates a character of tremendous emotional depth and tenderness, connecting readers with the complexity and compassion of Indigenous people.
The author has created a rich work of postapocalyptic fiction without the dense exposition often found in the genre. The sequel to The Marrow Thieves, Hunting by Stars, was published in 2021 and was shortlisted for best YA book by the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Awards.Dimaline writes elegant prose that grabs the reader and carries them into this dark and passionate world. The Marrow Thieves was defended by Jully Black on Canada Reads 2018. It is currently being adapted for television. In 2017, The Marrow Thieves won the Governor General's Literary Award for Young people's literature - text and the Kirkus Prize for young readers' literature. Her book A Gentle Habit was published in August 2016. In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Her first book, Red Rooms, was published in 2007, and her novel The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy was released in 2013. Cherie Dimaline is a Métis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally.
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