New Edition of Badlands Now Available

Badlands is now available in a fully illustrated, collectible hardcover edition from Blake Press. 

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 an adolescent Sioux girl and her charismatic father, Blackfoot. An intoxicating love emerges between them that transcends politics and destiny.

Praise for Badlands

"A  deeply affecting story of revelation and its repercussions." - Donna Seaman, Booklist
"Badlands is a very strong, very intelligent and very intriguing novel." - Joyce Carol Oates

"Badlands is an extraordinary book. Its imagery makes one think of William Blake. Better than a novel, it reads like a fierce poem." - Louis Malle

"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." - Joan Didion

"Badlands is an achievement." - Peter Matthiessen

"A narrative with a weighty sensuality that carries the reader forward in a kind of drunken, dreamlike state." - The New York Times