The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Tricksters, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Mistaken or secret identity, 1940’s, Midwest, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Catholics or Catholic Church, 1990’s, Saints or sainthood, Priests, Church or churches, North Dakota
- Locales: North Dakota, Indian Reservation, ND
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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