We Survived the Night Book Reading

Copperfield’s Books and Santa Rosa Junior College proudly welcome Oakland writer and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat to Santa Rosa for his powerful debut - We Survived the Night. The discussion will include a reading and the author will share a cultural dance inspired by moments from the book! Audience Q&A and book signing to follow.

A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today—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. Julian Brave NoiseCat’s childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St’at’imc father, an artist haunted by a turbulent past, abandoned the family, he and his non-Native mother were embraced by the urban Native community in Oakland, California, as well as by family on the Canim Lake Indian Reserve in British Columbia. In his father’s absence, NoiseCat immersed himself in Native history and culture to understand the man he seldom saw—his past, his story, where he came from—and, by extension, himself.