I've been seeing this book on a lot of Best of Indigenous Horror lists, so I had to pull it off my TBR. This is a chilling tale about a woman trying to get her husband back and the Métis stories about the Rougarou.
Read about it here: open.substack.com/pub/theresti...
#cheriedimaline #booksky
A woman peering over the top of the Marrow Thieves book cover, which depicts a First Nations person with a streak of white paint on their cheek.
I wish this was a full “adult-length” novel. The writing is solid and the world-building and characters so interesting that I wanted a lot more of them. #cheriedimaline #themarrowthieves #summerreading #readingcatchup
Paula Wieczorek's book "Imagining the anthropocene future" on a large tree trunk with lots of swirly snags
It's the UN's Intl Day of the World's #IndigenousPeoples today! 🌏
Let's honour it with some new books!
Paula Wieczorek analyses how #IndigenousWriters #ZainabAmadahy #RebeccaRoanhorse #MelissaTantaquidgeonZobel #CherieDimaline & #LouiseErdrich write #IndigenousFuturism in the #Anthropocene
Halfway through "Venco" and enjoying it a lot!
#CherieDimaline #fantasyfiction
Ecological fiction that inspires action ... Get motivated with these works of #ecofiction by #authors #ClaudiaCasper #CherieDimaline #ChristianeVadnais #NinaMunteanu
A picture of the marrow thieves novel.
This is the first book in a long time to leave me nearly in tears. It's haunting, devastating, and beautiful. This needs to be on everyone's reading list.
#cheriedimaline #indigenousauthors #marrowthieves
![Digital collage. Creative response to 'The Marrow Thieves' by Cherie Dimaline.
The collage depicts French & Rose alongside the brook they discovered in the 'On the Road' section.
French drops to his knees and clutches Rose for support as he laughs and cries. French was carrying Rose’s pack, which now sits beside him with Minerva’s star blanket.
The clouds above invoke the pervasive spectre of school children being ground up with their “bone mush and sticky sap” which forms the pervasive rain. This blood (from the destroyed remains of Indigenous kin) rains down on the ground, only to eventually gather and transform into the brook. This rain also makes the surrounding hills look like they're bleeding.
The meadow is a dull brown wasteland, reflecting the state of the world & French’s mental state. Despite this, life springs up around the brook. Over Rose’s shoulder, trees grow downward toward the brook “like pious monks”, another reminder of the residential schools threatening them.
The brook is thin & brown, bleeding from the surrounding hills. It “carrie[s] itself with quiet grace,” feeding plants with roots “dangling under the cool surface like old ladies dipping vein-bruised legs into a pool.”
Two fish in the brook to represent vitality and communion.
Plants growing along the bank are native edibles (lambsquarters, rhubarb, fiddleheads, dandelion, plantain, wild strawberry, raspberry, curly dock, garlic mustard, miner’s lettuce). The edibles both reference Indigenous teachings & medicines, & the consumption of Indigenous people in the novel.
The oppressive darkness, deadened landscape, & spectral images of residential school abattoirs in the clouds above collectively evoke the terrors of their present reality. Despite this, a warm light finds them, hinting at healing, triumphs & reunions the future may hold. The shallow brook at their feet that separates darkness from light & destruction from regeneration suggesting upcoming transitions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56vyod2m4cc7svpgjtqu2fx4/bafkreih3rgy53uwuy7gkn4jwd2j54ax32egd6u4nnghgsszgjrt5ohtvna)
Digital collage. Creative response to 'The Marrow Thieves' by Cherie Dimaline. The collage depicts French & Rose alongside the brook they discovered in the 'On the Road' section. French drops to his knees and clutches Rose for support as he laughs and cries. French was carrying Rose’s pack, which now sits beside him with Minerva’s star blanket. The clouds above invoke the pervasive spectre of school children being ground up with their “bone mush and sticky sap” which forms the pervasive rain. This blood (from the destroyed remains of Indigenous kin) rains down on the ground, only to eventually gather and transform into the brook. This rain also makes the surrounding hills look like they're bleeding. The meadow is a dull brown wasteland, reflecting the state of the world & French’s mental state. Despite this, life springs up around the brook. Over Rose’s shoulder, trees grow downward toward the brook “like pious monks”, another reminder of the residential schools threatening them. The brook is thin & brown, bleeding from the surrounding hills. It “carrie[s] itself with quiet grace,” feeding plants with roots “dangling under the cool surface like old ladies dipping vein-bruised legs into a pool.” Two fish in the brook to represent vitality and communion. Plants growing along the bank are native edibles (lambsquarters, rhubarb, fiddleheads, dandelion, plantain, wild strawberry, raspberry, curly dock, garlic mustard, miner’s lettuce). The edibles both reference Indigenous teachings & medicines, & the consumption of Indigenous people in the novel. The oppressive darkness, deadened landscape, & spectral images of residential school abattoirs in the clouds above collectively evoke the terrors of their present reality. Despite this, a warm light finds them, hinting at healing, triumphs & reunions the future may hold. The shallow brook at their feet that separates darkness from light & destruction from regeneration suggesting upcoming transitions.
My "creative response" to #TheMarrowThieves by #CherieDimaline. Excellent novel. I highly recommend both it and it's sequel, #HuntingByStars. Composed from 45 separate images and some digital painting.
#art #DigitalArt #collage #books #indigenous #literature
Late to the party but glad I finally joined - #CherieDimaline writes with wit, intensity and a clear sense of how to engage. Glad to end the year taking this one off the TBR list after so long #IndigenousLit #YALit
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls review #CherieDiMaline #FuneralSongsForDyingGirls #books #reading #horror #horrorbooks (read Feb 2024)
🇨🇦 Canadian kid 🥰 😅🤣
I would have said the same, "I did not turn into a werewolf...."
Cause I am 🇨🇦
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#KelleyArmstrong 💜
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#werewolves #Bitten
I must read, 📖
#EmpireofWild #CherieDimaline
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A Canadian Werewolf in New York #MarkLeslie
