Hunting by Stars: (A Marrow Thieves Novel)

by Cherie Dimaline Narrated by Meegwun Fairbrother, Michelle St. John

Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.

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 re-opened-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 new found 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. This engrossing, action-packed, deftly-drawn novel 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.

Editorial Reviews

FEBRUARY 2022 - AudioFile

This grim but richly complicated novel brings listeners back to the dystopian world introduced in THE MARROW THIEVES. Indigenous teenager French has just been reunited with his father when he’s separated from his found family and imprisoned in the 21st-century version of residential schools. Narrator Meegwun Fairbrother gives a stirring performance as French. Desperate to stay alive and get back to his family, he’s forced to make impossible choices. Fairbrother’s voice oscillates between fierce determination, despair, and horror as French navigates an unbearably violent world. Michelle St. John narrates the chapters told from the points of view of French’s family. She’s especially good at voicing the stubbornness and anger of French’s girlfriend, Rose. This is not an easy listen, but it’s a worthwhile and ultimately hopeful one. L.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172935091
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	10/19/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

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