Coming Soon: A New, Fully Illustrated Edition of Badlands

Blake Press is excited to be reissuing a fully illustrated edition of Melinda Camber Porter's novel Badlands this fall. The New York Times called Badlands "A narrative with weighty sensuality that carries the reader forward in a kind of drunken, dreamlike state." Joyce Carol Oates called Badlands a "very strong, very intelligent and very intriguing novel.” Joan Didion said, “In Badlands, Melinda Camber Porter has focused her English intelligence on America and rendered it as an uneasy dream of sex and death and abandonment, a mirage with the power of possession.” Peter Matthiessen called Badlands "an achievement." Melinda Camber Porter in a South Dakota hay filed, 1991. Badlands is a love story set in the awe-inspiring landscape of the Wounded Knee Reservation in South Dakota. The narrator, a young Englishwoman, discovers her own history of abuse as she plunges into the poignant destinies of the Lakota people. She forms a passionate bond with a Sioux girl and her charismatic father, Blackfoot. An intoxicating love emerges between them that transcends politics and destiny. Don't miss the Melinda Camber Porter Exhibition of Art, Books and Film at the University of South Dakota September 19 - October 16. All of Melinda Camber Porter's books are available at amazon.com