Christine Charbonneau

Dimaline's dystopian novel explores a future that exists post-apocalyptic events in North America. Because of an illness, White people can no longer dream, but they have figured out how to harvest dreams from Indigenous people. Bands of hunters track the groups of Indigenous that have banded together to help keep each other safe and alive. The duology follows two brothers who wind up on very different trajectories after one sacrifices himself to capture so the other can escape. The books are suspenseful--sometimes tender, sometimes brutal--and led to many questions for me about the ways humans can be wondrous and their own (and each other's) worst enemies at the same time. Thoughts about colonization, bigotry, and the ongoing consequences of White Supremacist behavior are unavoidable. Highly recommend both.