A review by eejayceelof
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

5.0

It's been far, far too long between reading this book and writing its review, so I'm afraid it might be a little bit more perfunctory than my usual. This is the curse of reading interesting material while in the process of packing up to move countries! This novel deserves a much deeper analysis than I'm going to be able to give it, because it was just marvelous...it created emotional characters in a vivid world, structured a clean and deceptively simple narrative between past and present with a similar tension holding up both ends, and thoroughly plays around with gender in a super compelling way that forces readers to reorient any of their visions of masculinity and femininity. I appreciate how the text never quite goes one way or the other on the supernatural elements of the narrative, with Erdrich giving ample evidence both to believe and distrust any miraculous events. There's such a strong sense of place here, and Father Damien Modeste is one of my favourite characters of 2019. It's really, really, really, really great.