The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse plunges readers into the lifetime saga of Father Damien and his work among the Ojibwes on the Little No Horse reservation. A prologue, containing a 1996 a letter to the pope from Father Damien, begins the book's four-part narration by returning to 1910-1912. As in all Erdrich's work, landscape plays a major role. “Eighty-some years previous, through a town that was to flourish and past a farm that would disappear, the river slid—all that happened began with that flow of water.” Novitiate Sister Cecelia, the former Agnes De...

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