AllegedlyAllegedly

<p><strong>4 starred reviews!</strong></p><p><em>Orange Is the New Black</em> meets Walter Dean Myer&#8217;s <em>Monster</em> in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.</p><p>Mary B. Addison killed a baby. </p><p>Allegedly. She didn&#8217;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? </p><p>There wasn&#8217;t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she&#8217;s got Ted&#8212;and their unborn child&#8212;to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary&#8217;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?</p>