Hunting by Stars (A Marrow Thieves Novel)
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Publisher Description
From the acclaimed author of The Marrow Thieves comes a thrilling new story about hope and survival that New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley called “a revelatory must-read.”
A 2022 American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book
Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up—or are reopened—across the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams.
Seventeen-year-old French lost his family to these schools and has spent the years since heading north with his newfound family: a group of other dreamers, who, like him, are trying to build and thrive as a community. But then French wakes up in a pitch-black room, locked in and alone for the first time in years, and he knows immediately where he is—and what it will take to escape.
Meanwhile, out in the world, his found family searches for him and dodges new dangers—school Recruiters, a blood cult, even the land itself. When their paths finally collide, French must decide how far he is willing to go—and how many loved ones is he willing to betray—in order to survive.
Hunting by Stars is an engrossing, action-packed, deftly drawn novel that expands on the world of Cherie Dimaline’s award-winning The Marrow Thieves, and it will haunt readers long after they’ve turned the final page.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Welcome to a postapocalyptic world where a plague is messing with human beings’ sleep cycles and Indigenous people are being hunted down and harvested for their ability to dream. Cherie Dimaline’s sequel to her award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves follows a crew of survivors—who lovingly call each other “family”—as they run from a government that, quite literally, wants to harvest the marrow from their bones. When 17-year-old Frenchie is captured and brought to a terrifying residential school, the family members kick into high gear. We loved Dimaline’s compelling characters, from fearless leader Miigwans, newly reunited with his husband, Isaac, to the pregnant, eye-patch-wearing badass Wab, to the 16-year-old, knife-wielding Rose. Hunting by Stars is a heart-wrenching tale of love and survival.