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Violence
A lot
Violence including hunting of humans and deaths; the premise involves systematic persecution
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Trauma, genocide, the destruction of culture, and the fierce psychological will to survive
What this book is about
In a near-future where climate change has devastated the world, most humans can no longer dream — except Indigenous people, whose bone marrow holds the key. So they are hunted. Dimaline's award-winning YA novel follows a group of survivors through the boreal forest, drawing directly on the history of residential schools. Devastating, urgent, and necessary.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Depicts systematic persecution of Indigenous people
Residential school parallels
Violence throughout
Deeply traumatic themes
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