An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent

A SERVICE95 BOOKCLUB HYPE READ FOR OCTOBER + HARPERS BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF AUTUMN 2025 'A powerful, beautiful, wrenching masterpiece ... both a memoir and something that reaches far beyond the personal'' REBECCA SOLNIT, author of HOPE IN THE DARK 'The book I've been waiting my whole life to read' TOMMY ORANGE, author of the Booker longlisted WANDERING STARS 'A story that must be told' KATHLEEN DUVAL, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of NATIVE NATIONS - "In my people's language, we greet each other each morning by saying "Tsecwínucw-k: 'You survived the night"' One dark night, a new-born is discovered dumped inside a waste incinerator. The boy, rescued from death, grows into a man who will in turn abandon his own children, including his first-born son Julian Brave NoiseCat. Behind this father-son story lies an even darker history of abuse, colonialism and vicious attempts to erase North America's First Peoples from their land. Told in the style of a 'Coyote Story', a legend of the trickster forefather of NoiseCat's people, We Survived the Night brings a vanishing artform back to life in this dazzling account of contemporary Indigenous North America. Braiding on-the-ground reportage together with intimate experience, history with mythology, NoiseCat grapples with trauma that cascades across generations to uncover truths about himself, his family and his people - how they survived and how, through vital political, environmental and cultural movements, they are coming back. An inventive, illuminating and moving narrative from one of the most compelling artists at work today, We Survived the Night is both reconciliation and celebration of Indigenous pain, hope and resurgence - and their power to shape a collective future. Here is an unforgettable journey of restoration through father-son ties and historic reckoning of Indigenous people, announcing a major new literary talent.

"Oscar-nominated filmmaker NoiseCat blends journalism with memoir in this powerful book about the First Peoples of North America. Setting out across the country, he delivers a cultural epic that chronicles the intimate stories of different communities - from the movement fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline to the activists leading the campaign to change the name of Washington's American football team - all the while finding the thread that connects to his own personal history" - Harpers Bazaar UK

"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