The text presents humanity caught in lingering sadness after floods and earthquakes, as sickness has become rampant, and people find that they could no longer dream (Dimaline 29). In The Marrow Thieves, settlers have lost the ability to dream due to their treatment of nature and the environment the land is sick and incapacitated due the constant demands imposed on it.
This article examines Dimaline’s work in the context of a “sleep crisis”, which scholar Diletta de Cristofaro defines as “the notion that our modern society chronically struggles with a lack of sleep” (de Cristofaro). Métis Canadian writer Cherie Dimaline’s novel set in a dystopian future titled The Marrow Thieves presents a society plagued by troubled sleep.
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