The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
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...
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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?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060931223 (0060931221)
Publish date: April 2nd 2002
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Last Report really opens up and blurs the boundaries on what it means to be good and evil, man and woman, saint and priest, and Christian and Ojibwe. What makes a saint? Piety? Miracles? It is beautiful, stunning, profound, horrifying, and funny. Louise Erdrich's best.
Read this for WS 349: Film, Literature and Culture Production: Re-Imagining History through Contemporary Women's Writing with Christine St. Peter.
This book chronicles the life of a former nun who, through a series of circumstances, becomes a priest at a fictionalized Ojibwe reservation during the last eighty years of the 20th CenturyThrough Father Damien, as well as other secondary characters, Erdrich explores the ideas of identity, religion...
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