We Survived the Night
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There There
As an infant, Julian Brave NoiseCat's father was found abandoned in a dumpster. Against all odds, he survived and made it out of his impoverished reservation only to abandon his own son. As a young man, NoiseCat embarks on an unforgettable journey into his family's past and his people's present.
Told in the style of a 'Coyote Story', an art form nearly annihilated by colonization, this dazzling blend of history and mythology, memoir and reportage unravels old stories and braids together new ones. NoiseCat grapples with the erasure of North America's First Peoples and the trauma that cascades across generations, and illuminates the vital Indigenous cultural, environmental and political movements that are reshaping the future. Virtuosic, compelling and deeply moving, this is at once an intensely personal journey and a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love and resurgence.
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<p><b>Praise for <i>Sugarcane:</i></b><br>Immersive and incredibly beautiful'
NoiseCat'
Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, <i>We Survived the Night</i> 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'
Has a stomach-churning potency
NoiseCat stands where the currents of climate journalism, advocacy and policy meet. His writing on the environment crackles with reported stories and historical context.
<p><b>Praise for NoiseCat<i>:</i></b> <br>'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.'
