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Airing Out My Dirty Laundry:
The Sounds Beneath the Cracks by Colletta Adonia Trafford Publishing
book review by Corinna Underwood
This is the combined true story of Nymph, a vivacious young black woman from a dysfunctional family who wants to love but finds it difficult to trust, and Delilah, a woman who has been sexually abused since early childhood. What do these women have in common? They are both in love with the same man.
After serving four and a half years in the army, the 24-year-old Nymph heads to Georgia to be with her boyfriend Ivan. After only two moths together conflict begins to cause strain on the relationship. To make things worse, Nymph finds out that Ivan has been spending time with another woman—one that was his wife. When his ex-girlfriend Delilah comes back on the scene, Nymph resorts to deception and disguise to try and find out the true relationship between Ivan and his woman.
This harsh story is aggressive and the reader will have to have a strong stomach to follow Nymph on her journey in order to find out if she will ultimately she learn anything from her experiences with men? The chapters are a little disjointed, which sometimes makes the past and present unclear, but the pain and suffering of the two women is very real. Each chapter begins with a burst of urban poetry followed by dramatic events in the lives and relationships of the two women from their dark and tortuous pasts to their struggles for love and the battles between them as they each vie for Ivan's affections. Some readers may be uncomfortable with the harsh and often explicit language but Adonia makes no apologies; she just wants to tell it as it is.