5/23/2023 0 Comments The last report on the miracles![]() ![]() This latest opens with its protagonist, Father Damien Modeste, in old age, “in the thrall of the grape” and anxious that his longtime secret will be revealed upon his death – namely that he is actually Agnes Dewitt, a woman who has masqueraded for decades as a man of the cloth after stealing a dead priest’s identity. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is the seventh in a series of works by Louise Erdrich that chronicles life on an Ojibwe reservation called Little No Horse. I soon discovered that this title was just what it proclaimed itself to be – the final report to the Vatican by a priest concerning the goings-on at the Indian reservation that is his parish. As I approached The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, I looked skeptically at the long title, wondering what Louise Erdrich’s story would entail. In other instances, it happens to be a small isolated microcosm of the novel’s larger themes. Often, a book’s title is a cryptic reference to a small event or occurrence in a novel that is key to unlocking the novel’s meaning. ![]() ![]() “Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.” – George Santayana ![]()
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