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caseythereader 's review for:
The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
- THE MARROW THIEVES is tense and dark, yet full of love for history and tradition, family and found family.
- The book draws explicit comparisons between the marrow factories of the book's world and the residential schools of the past (our world). There is an ongoing theme that this has happened before, and Native people will survive it again, and survive it by holding on to their language and culture (and that they shouldn't have to be in this position, of course).
- Between reading THE MARROW THIEVES and EMPIRE OF WILD this year, Dimaline is a new favorite author for me. She is so great at writing page turners that build off of deep emotional connections.
- The book draws explicit comparisons between the marrow factories of the book's world and the residential schools of the past (our world). There is an ongoing theme that this has happened before, and Native people will survive it again, and survive it by holding on to their language and culture (and that they shouldn't have to be in this position, of course).
- Between reading THE MARROW THIEVES and EMPIRE OF WILD this year, Dimaline is a new favorite author for me. She is so great at writing page turners that build off of deep emotional connections.