Shiprock Baby

Privileged, educated Melissa Cody's search for her birth parents and her volunteer job with a women's advocacy group on the Navajo reservation, casts her into the midst of the egregious problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

As she is sensitized to Native culture and to the real possibility of her own bi-racial beginnings, a case of rape of two teenagers and the disappearance of one of the victims, erupts on the reservation, highlighting painful differences in morals, beliefs, law enforcement, trust and understanding.

With a beautiful and balanced literary style of character development, Bruce Logan is able to carefully explore this complex issue through various lenses.

R. Bruce Logan has retired from two satisfying careers. He was a U.S. Army officer for twenty-five years and a management consultant for twenty years. He has devoted his retirement years to humanitarian work and philanthropy, largely in Southeast Asia. He proudly serves on the board of directors of GoPhilanthropic Foundation, a small humanitarian NGO with a global reach. In 2012, he and his wife, Elaine, wrote the memoir, Back to Vietnam: Tours of the Heart. He has subsequently written four novels dealing with social problems; Finding Lien, As The Lotus Blooms, The Road From Tenancingo, and this one. When not traveling, Bruce and Elaine live on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.