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

5.0

This is one of those books that makes me want to go through all my previous reads and downgrade the five-star ones - because they don't match up to this one. A few of them do, of course. 'The Last Report' reminded me a little of 'The Tenderness of Wolves' by Stef Penney - I think because of the depth and the beauty of the writing. It's an exquisite story, often painful, occasionally veering into magical realism, frequently funny, but always intensely human and compassionate. And the ending, with its turning around of things, is wonderful. Father Damien/Agnes is a character for the ages, full of love, wonder and enduring innocence, and determined to be what he/she is called to be, but in his/her own particular way.