Hunting by Stars

"Hunting by Stars is fantasy – but just barely. In it, North America’s Indigenous people are being hunted for their ability to dream, which most of the rest of the continent has lost. Within that landscape, almost everything that Cherie Dimaline’s characters experience – from being separated from their families to being threatened for access to resources to being thrown in boarding schools – is based on real history. And while the book paints a painful, sometimes relentless portrait of the injustices that have been inflicted on Native people, it still manages to be nuanced, engrossing and beautifully imagined."