![]() ![]() ![]() ĭimaline treats the difficult topic of genocide as she wanted readers to know that such events happened to Indigenous people in the past. ![]() She wanted to reach both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth, at an age when they could understand these themes. She chose a teenage boy as the narrator because of the emotional intensity she could envision the character feeling and expressing in his actions. Working with Indigenous youth inspired Dimaline to write a novel in which those youth could envision themselves as protagonists, as people with a future. After meeting another pair of Indigenous people, Travis and Linc, they are betrayed and their youngest, RiRi, is killed. Along the way north to safety, he falls in with a group led by an older man, Miigwans. Mitch leads them away but is taken, giving Frenchie time to escape. Frenchie, the protagonist who lost his mother only recently and whose father has left, is with his brother Mitch in their hideout-a treehouse, when Truancy agents, whom he and Mitch have dubbed "The Recruiters", arrive to take them away. Indigenous people, who can still dream, are hunted for their marrow to create a serum to treat others. The story is set in a dystopian future in which most people have lost the ability to dream, with catastrophic psychological results. ![]()
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