The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
Indigenous dystopia Canada colonialism

Our Take

In a near-future Canada devastated by climate change, Indigenous people are hunted for their bone marrow — the only population that can still dream. Dimaline uses speculative fiction to make literal what colonialism has always done: harvest Indigenous bodies for settler survival.

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