The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
Publisher: Dancing Cat Books, an imprint of Cormorant Books Inc.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781770864863; 9781537998107
Subjects: Young adult fiction; Indians of North America; Bone marrow; Global warming; Fiction; Science fiction; Procurement of organs, tissues; Dreams
Description: 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."