When Rose teaches Frenchie the word ‘nishin,’ good, he ‘turn the word over in throat like a stone a prayer couldn’t add breath to, a world wasn’t willing to release’ (page 39).What events have shaped their lives? Where do they find hope? Reflect on two characters’ coming-to stories.How do stories help define the concept of home? Discuss the role of story-telling in the novel.How do you see others in our community engaging or not engaging with this movement? Describe how Frenchie’s family band is structured so that people of all ages are able to bring their strengths to the group. In indigenous communities, Elders hold an honored place. Around the world, youth have been leading the charge on climate action.How has climate change impacted you? Do you think the future Dimaline envisions is possible? Why or why not?.How has climate change and severe weather impacted the landscape Frenchie navigates? How has it affected the main characters’ daily lives? What impact has it had on the non-indigenous population?.It is currently being adapted for television. In 2017, The Marrow Thieves won the Governor General's Literary Award for Young people's literature - text and the Kirkus Prize for young readers' literature. Her book A Gentle Habit was published in August 2016.
In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Her first book, Red Rooms, was published in 2007, and her novel The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy was released in 2013. Cherie Dimaline is a Métis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally.
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