Badlands

'Badlands' is a powerful novel, poetic 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. 'Badlands' defines the challenge that faces contemporary America: to confront her past and to weld together the visions and needs of the native Americans with the dreams of the newer immigrants.