Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. We Survived The Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat is a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love and resurgence.
What We Say: “Julian Brave NoiseCat is an activist, filmmaker and writer, and an enrolled member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’secen in British Columbia. The book takes its name from the Secwepemctsín morning greeting and the acknowledgement that to still be here can never be taken for granted. Bringing the same rigour to the page as he did to his Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane about the Canadian Indian residential school system, We Survived The Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence.” – Maria Padget
What They Say: “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… With this, Julian Brave NoiseCat has written a book I’ve been waiting my whole life to read.” – Tommy Orange
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Maria Padget is Book Club Director at Service95
