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A review by moh
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
5.0
This is one of my all-time favorite novels. On rereading it, I'm struck with how masterfully Louise Erdrich plays with ideas about what we consider true, esp. concerning history but just in general. And I've always loved her sense of humor.
She has a note at the end of one of the newer editions of Love Medicine that says (in much more elegant language) she eventually realized she had been writing "one long book," and Love Medicine, Tracks, Four Souls, The Bingo Palace, The Painted Drum, and this novel are the main chapters. In an extended moment of pleasurable book-nerdery, I've been re-reading them in more or less that order. This is the book that, for me at least, most strongly ties together the different families' stories and makes me laugh at everything I thought I knew about them. It's also staggeringly beautiful as a standalone novel. If you like to read novels that break your heart and somehow manage to still leave you feeling hopeful, you will love The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.
She has a note at the end of one of the newer editions of Love Medicine that says (in much more elegant language) she eventually realized she had been writing "one long book," and Love Medicine, Tracks, Four Souls, The Bingo Palace, The Painted Drum, and this novel are the main chapters. In an extended moment of pleasurable book-nerdery, I've been re-reading them in more or less that order. This is the book that, for me at least, most strongly ties together the different families' stories and makes me laugh at everything I thought I knew about them. It's also staggeringly beautiful as a standalone novel. If you like to read novels that break your heart and somehow manage to still leave you feeling hopeful, you will love The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.