Erdrich's fiction, as well as a litany of sufferings and gory ordeals, reminiscent of the travails and bizarre twists of fate sustained by her characters.Īlthough some of the gaudier plot twists Ms. If you strip away the sugared hagiography from many traditional lives of the saints, however, there is a mixture of the mundane and magical reminiscent of that idiosyncratic blend of the real and the surreal in Ms. Erdrich's novels, and to compare and contrast the lives of two prospective saints: Father Damien, a priest who has devoted his life to caring for his flock with quiet devotion and grace, and Sister Leopolda, an overzealous nun who is said to have effected numerous miracles and cures. In summary, the story line of ''The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse'' might seem an incongruous undertaking for Louise Erdrich, the author of elliptical, dreamlike novels like ''The Beet Queen'' and ''The Antelope Wife.'' We are asked in these pages to accompany an envoy from the Vatican to the North Dakota Ojibwe Indian reservation, which has served as the backdrop for so many of Ms. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE
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