The second begins when Father Jude Miller (a name familiar to readers of The Beet Queen) arrives to investigate the life of Sister Leopolda (or Pauline Puyat, another familiar name). How-and why-could such a deception last so long? That's the first mystery. The prologue ends with the curiously beautiful image of the old man slowly removing heavy robes, undergarments, and, at last, a bandage wound tightly around women's breasts: 'small, withered, modest as folded flowers.' But the good priest is not what he appears.

The report in question comes from Father Damien Modeste, who has served the Ojibwe through a century of famine, epidemics, murders, and feuds. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is no exception.

Over the course of 13 years and five novels, Louise Erdrich has staked out a richly imagined corner of North Dakota soil-her own Yoknapatawpha, where every character is connected to every other and nothing can be said to happen for the first time. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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. or manufacture a protective history for Leopolda, though he believes her wonder-working is motivated solely by evil? He is faced with the most difficult decision: Should he tell all and risk everything. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety, but these facts are bound up in his own secret. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. 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. For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse.

The last report on the miracles