The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse: a novel

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Erdrich, Louise

Erdrich, Louise

Athens Drive Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Wake Forest Community

Adult Fiction

Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
North Regional - Adult Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
Wake Forest Community - Adult Fiction

A story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Ojibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality begin? NPR sponsorships. Deals with miracles, crises of faith, struggles with good & evil, temptation, & the corrosive & redemptive power of secrecy. For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwa, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Compelled to his task by a direct mystical experience, Father Damien has made enormous sacrifices, and experienced the joys of commitment as well as deep suffering. 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. He imagines the undoing of all that he has accomplished -- sees unions unsundered, baptisms nullified, those who confessed to him once again unforgiven. 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, but these facts are bound up in his own secret. In relating his history and that of Leopolda, whose wonder working is documented but inspired, he believes, by a capacity for evil rather than the love of good, Father Damien is forced to choose: Should he reveal all he knows and risk everything? Or should he manufacture a protective history? In spinning out the tale of his life, Father Damien in fact does both. His story encompasses his life as a young woman, her passions, and the pestilence, tribal hatreds, and sorrows passed from generation to generation of Ojibwa. From the fantastic truth of Father Damien's origin as a woman to the hilarious account of the absurd demise of Nanapush, his best friend on the reservation, his story ranges over the span of the century. In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels set on the same reservation, Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a work of an avid heart, a writer's writer, and a storytelling genius.

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Fiction
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ERDRICH

Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
Eva H. Perry Regional
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Wake Forest Community

9780061577628

2009

Harper Perennial

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Clergy -- Fiction
Cross-dressers -- Fiction
Indian reservations -- Fiction
Miracles -- Fiction
Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction
Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Women saints -- Fiction

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse : a novel

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse : a novel / Louise Erdrich

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse

a novel

Clergy
Cross-dressers
Indian reservations
Miracles
Ojibwa Indians
Passing (Identity)
Women saints