The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
By Louise Erdrich
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060931223, 384pp.)
Publication Date: April 2002
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Categories: Literary
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For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Sister Leopolda's piety and is faced with the most difficult decision of his life: Should he reveal all he knows and risk everything? Or should he manufacture a protective history though he believes Leopolda's wonder-working is motivated by evil?
Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels, several volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore.
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"Stunning …a moving meditation … infused with mystery and wonder."
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“A deeply affecting narrative . . . by turns comical and elegiac, farcical, and tragic.”
-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
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"You will be dazzled by the poetry of her language and her lighteninglike illuminations of the human condition."
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“[Erdrich’s] best so far…told with such cleverness and compassion that the effect is nothing less than dazzling.”
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