![]() ![]() In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. The Indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. "We had a future and a past all bundled up in her round dark cheeks and loose curls."įrench (sometimes called Frenchie his given name is Francis) and the rest are on the run, running away from "the Recruiters." Here, I'll share the description from the back cover: ![]() On page 32, there's a line about her that squeezes my heart. Later, French will meet and fall in love with Rose. I paused again and again as I met and came to know 16 year-old French, and then the people who would become his family: Miig, Wab, Zheegwon, Tree, RiRi, Minerva, Chi-Boy, and Slopper. ![]() That's the case, too, with The Marrow Thieves. There's a quality in Dimaline's writing that reached from the page, into my being. I wrote, then, that I had to "just be" with Auntie Dave and that story for awhile. ![]() The character she writes about in that story is named Auntie Dave. I first came to know Cherie Dimaline's writing last year, when I read "Legends are Made, Not Born" in Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An LGBT and Two-Spirit Sci Fi Anthology. ![]()
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