Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams.
Cherie Dimaline is a Metis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. Her novels include Red Rooms, The Girl Who Grew A Galaxy, A Gentle Habit, The Marrow Thieves and Empire of Wild. 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 Indigenous Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Her young adult novel The Marrow Thieves has won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and, among other honors, was a fan favorite in the 2018 edition of CBC's Canada Reads. It was also a Book of the Year on numerous lists including NPR, School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, the Globe & Mail, Quill & Quire and the CBC. From the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario, she now lives in Vancouver.
"Dimaline's story resonates with me. It will resonate with other
Native readers, too…This story is one I'm carrying. It is
about caring, about love, about how people can continue, and will
continue…I highly recommend The Marrow Thieves."-- "Debbie
Reese, American Indians in Children's Literature"
"... 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."-- "Best YA Books of All
Time"
"The writing is painful yet beautiful, bleak but ultimately
hopeful. In this era of reconciliation, Cherie Dimaline's The
Marrow Thieves is a work of speculative fiction that resonates and
stays with the reader long past the last page."-- "Sunburst Award
for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Jury"
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