Shiprock Baby

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