allegedly

Written by Tiffany D Jackson

Convicted of murder, a girl must uncover the truth to save her unborn child.

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416 pages· 86,126 words· Est. 8 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Mary B. Addison was convicted of a crime she may not have committed. Now, with her unborn child's future at stake, she must confront her past and the mother she distrusts. As the state threatens to take her baby, Mary faces a haunting question: can she uncover the truth and reclaim her life, or will her past forever define her? In a world where appearances deceive, Mary must navigate a web of lies and secrets to find redemption. But who can she trust when everyone has their own version of the truth?

From the publisher

“A tightly spun debut that wrestles with many intense ideas and ends with a knife twist that will send readers racing back to the beginning again.” –ALA Booklist (starred review)Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myers’s Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting story about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home, from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson.Mary B. Addison killed a baby.Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it?There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted–and their unborn child–to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary’s fate now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?

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