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The Marrow Thieves The Marrow Thieves The Marrow Thieves is a young adult novel by Canadian writer Cherie Dimaline, published in 2017 by Cormorant Books through its Dancing Cat Books imprint. Told in the voice of teenage boy and archetypal reluctant hero Frenchie, the story is set in a dystopian future in which people have lost the ability to dream, with catastrophic psychological results. Indigenous people, who can still dream, are hunted for their marrow to create a serum to treat others. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2017 Governor General's Awards, and the 2017 Kirkus