Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. Told with a blistering honesty, the truth and grit create a beautifully woven coyote story we haven't heard before. This is a love letter to Oakland, to the Canim Lake Band Tsq'secen of the Secwepemc Nation, to a father from his son, to the act of being a Native person in the twenty first century finding ways to love even through all that wounds have opened and wrought. With this, Julian Brave NoiseCat has written a book I've been waiting my whole life to read. -- Tommy Orange This powerful book is a journey by torchlight through Julian's own family story, and the torches are coyote stories and broader histories of Indigenous North America. Braided together, the three become one narrative of suffering, survival, love and its failures and successes, continuities and ruptures, so that most of all it's a book of loss and recovery. It's a beautiful, wrenching, important masterpiece, both a memoir and something that reaches far beyond the personal. -- Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark Praise for NoiseCat:
'His words and images take us to places of greater understanding, places where we are invited into the lives, journeys, joys, and sorrows of amazing people who might otherwise go unseen. We are, all of us, broadened and connected by his vital work.' * The American Mosaic Journalism Prize * NoiseCat stands where the currents of climate journalism, advocacy and policy meet. His writing on the environment crackles with reported stories and historical context. * TIME Magazine * Praise for Sugarcane: Immersive and incredibly beautiful' * The New York Times * Has a stomach-churning potency * The Times * NoiseCat's is possibly the most compelling of the four entwined narratives that the movie follows * Guardian *
