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Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman
In this unabashed and uncensored personal memoir, author Éloïse Marseille examines her sexual education (and miseducation), from a forbidden first kiss with a female best friend in Catholic school to her exposure to the extremes of online porn, fumbling hookups, and navigating the complexities of lust and love in the modern era… But most importantly of all, the author’s nuanced relationship with her own body, sexuality, and self.
A raw, hilarious, and deeply touching book, Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman makes a powerful case for a sexual politics that is open, demystified, and free of shame.
Awards and mentions
Nominee – Doug Wright Awards 2024 (Best Book)
Nominee – Bédéis Causa Awards 2024 (Prix Réal-Fillion)
Preliminary selection – Prix des libraires du Québec (Bande dessinée Québec)
Reviews
Details
- ISBN
- 978-2-925114-23-9
- Release Date
- Nov 07 2023
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
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“This is an excellent book, in the best spirit of the auto-bio tradition, from a new talent with a lot to say.”
“…a candid and funny memoir… that is both empowering and raw.”
“Readers interested in comic but vulnerable graphic memoirs will relish Marseille’s charming but unflinching cartooning and painfully intimate accounts of one young woman grappling with both desire and shame.”
“Naked is a touching, funny, and bold graphic memoir that will challenge our deepest shame and might even offer a path towards self-acceptance.”
“The whole book feels like a hug, as if Marseille intuitively knows we all need one because we all have a sexual shame-filled past.”
“Through her sometimes funny and sometimes serious stories, Éloïse Marseille succeeds brilliantly in making us feel less alone in our questions about sexuality. A breath of fresh air that fits perfectly with the mores of our time.”
“The wounds are fresh here, as the 27-year-old Marseille is just starting to process the years of shame and self-hatred at the end. While the story is mostly pretty light-hearted, the ending not only sees an outpouring of grief, it doesn’t offer an easy out for the reader (or author, for that matter).”
“Funny, empathetic, easy to read and above all very intelligent…”