The Marrow Thieves

The Marrow Thieves

2017 • 234 pages

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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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The Marrow Thieves

The Marrow Thieves is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Cherie Dimaline.

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This continues my end of the year roundup (2017) of books in translation or written by non USA authors.

I loved everything about this book!

March 7, 2022

Culturally interesting and informative but lacking in plot pacing and urgency.

June 25, 2019

finished 3 weeks early for english class #girlboss

November 23, 2021

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