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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? She wouldn’t say.
Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn’t really “home”—no place where you fear for your life can be considered a home. Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home.
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 must find the voice to fight her past. And her fate lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But who really knows the real Mary?
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3.5 stars. Fast-paced read that really made me question how we handle criminal investigations, sentencing, the juvenile “justice” system, and more - but that twist at the end frustrated me. If you were horrified yet intrigued by Lesley Nneka Arimah's short story “Windfalls,” this is a good book to pick up.
This book ruined my life and will be one I will be thinking about for a very long time.
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