Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

Allegedly

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster 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. 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?

Reviewed by Bianca on

4.5 of 5 stars

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2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge
‪15. An “own voices” book‬

‬But I can’t be a fly, not today. I have to prepare. Be on high alert and focused. Because in a few hours, the most dangerous, most diabolical, most conniving woman in the world is visiting me:
My mother.


— A gripping psychological thriller about a convicted killer trying to clear her name. The relationship between the protagonist and her mother was very intriguing + I liked the portrayal of media sensationalism. Good read.

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