Labriola Virtual Book Club: Marrow Thieves Online
Join the Labriola Center to discuss Cherie Dimaline's Marrow Thieves! Lainey Tsosie, a Library Aide at our Center will be leading this discussion. This will be a virtual session and a Zoom link will be provided to those who register.
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 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." (Goodreads).
Cherie Dimaline wins her first Governor General's Literary Award in 2017 with The Marrow Thieves. She is an author and editor from the Georgian Bay Métis community whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. 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 Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Cherie Dimaline currently lives in Toronto where she coordinates the annual Indigenous Writers' Gathering.
- Date:
- Sunday, January 5, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Time Zone:
- Arizona Time (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Alumni Faculty Freshman General Public Graduate High School Staff Transfer Undergraduate
