The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (October 2022)

[Mariah Roze]

Author's Pick

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
(Love Medicine #6) by Louise Erdrich

[NancyJ]

It seems that I read all the wrong Louise Erdrich books this year. I must have read books we already read in this group, or haven’t gotten to yet. I couldn’t get into her books for young readers, but I really liked the adult books I read. I seem to appreciate her more with each book I read. Each book reveals a different aspect of the Ojibwa (Chippewa, Anishinabe) culture and history, filling me with a mix of different emotions. I was first attracted to this author because of my own bit of Native American heritage, but it quickly proved to be unnecessary to my enjoyment of her writing.

The Sentence is a perfect book for book lovers. Set in the Minneapolis bookstore owned by the author herself, with an unforgettable protagonist, it’s a timely, complex and intelligent book. The ghost mystery was a little surprising in a literary novel, but it didn’t detract from the wisdom in the book. I will continue to refer to Tookie’s favorite books list for years to come. It’s printed in the book and you can find several listopias on Goodreads. It was proposed for a challenge in another group, and I typed the full list here:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

The Night Watchman won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction last year. The author’s grandfather played an important role in the legal history of Native Americans in the U.S. and he is an endearing character. The book intertwines several other stories and characters, involving a time when many reservation residents were moving to the cities. This is a book that I will want to reread some day to more fully explore the related themes.

The Round House is the last book I read, and I think it’s the one that affected me the most emotionally. I felt very connected to the characters. It might be more depressing than her other books but somehow I didn’t mind at all. I think these characters will stay with me for a long time.

[Michaela]

I plan to read this book in November, as I can´t get Four Souls anyway. I loved the children´s books, especially in the beginning, but also read The Night Watchman and some others that I liked.