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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
By Louise Erdrich. For more than half a century, Father Damien Modeste has served his people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Compelled to his task by direct mystical experience, Father Damien has made enormous sacrifices as well as deep suffering. Now nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. He imagines the undoing of all he has accomplished. To complicate his fears a troubled colleague comes to the reservation investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false Saint Sister Leopolda.
361 pages
Hardcover $24.00
Paperback $12.95
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