“Naked sucked me in!” “I read it in one sitting.”“Phenomenal true story that reads like fiction.” “Simply a MUST!” 13 years ago a Mississippi house and marriage violently disintegrated. Abandoned by her husband and left alone to raise an infant in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Julie is surrounded by the rubble of her life – stripped bare by love and loss. What happens when one woman loses … loss. What happens when one woman loses everything?
Naked is a true story about choices, divorce, addictions, a mother’s dream, and a baby girl named Genoa. Julie shares a remarkable story with humor and tenderness. A story of suffering and empowerment – experience the vulnerability, intimate reflections, and ultimately the freedom as Julie’s journey unfolds.
-Writer’s Digest Finalist
-Top Rated Southern Memoir
-Amazon Bestseller
-National Indie Excellence Award Finalist
-Staff Pick at Anne Patchett’s Parnassus Books
-Readers’ Favorite Bronze Best Memoir
-USA Best Books Finalist
“Accolades to memoirist Julie Freed – this stunninglypoignant book candidly reveals intimate details of her life with clarity butnot a whiff of “poor, pitiful me.” In facing the end of her marriageand the end of life as she had known it on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, Freedexhibited the strength other Mississippians also showed in response to thiscountry’s worst natural disaster. She persevered – and she wrote a damn goodbook.” ~Nancy Kay Wessman author of Katrina, Mississippi: Voices fromGround Zero
“Occasionally, real-life setbacks smash into authors’lives with the degree of intensity usually found in fiction. Julie Freed’smemoir recounts just such an extreme situation … The strengthsJulie Freed draws on in her life are generously passed along to her readers, remindingus that just past the darkness, there is dawn.” ~Jerry Waxler, author of MemoirRevolution
“A heart-wrenching true story told withdignity.” ~ Victoria Twead, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling authorof the Old Fools Series.
“It is a rare talent that can make you feel the emotionsportrayed in words and Freed accomplished this. Showing that true strength andpower can derive from the lowest of places. NAKED is one memoir that I am gladI read.” ~ 125 Pages Book Review
“Her intention is to show how close we all are, at anymoment in time, to unexpected, monumental and life altering change. Anintelligent and engaging memoir.” ~ Book Viral
“Masterful!” ~ Cinda Brooks, author of bestselling Heartprints of Africa, A Family’s Story of Faith, Love, Adventure, and Turmoil.
“An honest, courageous, eye-opening and brilliantly written testament to a harrowing and life-changing period of her life.” ~ George Mahood, author of Free Country, Every Day is Holiday, and Life’s a Beach
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I thoroughly enjoyed this inspiring story of a woman who was stripped of everything. The timing if her husband wanting out of the marriage just before hurricane Katrina hit was devastating enough but then to lose all her worldly possessions a few days later added to her pain. The story focusses a lot on her relationship with her husband to give …
I’ve just finished reading this memoir by Julie Freed. Before I start my review, though, I’d just like to say how much I like the cover. It seems wonderfully symbolic of the devastation that occurred in both her personal life and in the hurricane. I didn’t notice it when I bought it, but having now read the book, I appreciate the cover even …
Informative, yet a story line that continually inspired the reader to keep reading. It touched on real life, emotional events.
A well-written memoir about an interesting event. I could not help comparing this upper-middle class vision of the story to the plight of the desperate people in the sports arena. Nevertheless, resilience and characters well as a somewhat unusual world view held my attention.
Good read about how to come back after crisis
I love a true, honest, easy to read book. Never having been through a hurricane and the repercussions it brings, I can only sympathize but I really feel bad for those who do.
This was a truly interesting, inspiring book. I enjoyed it very much.
I really enjoyed this memoir, the author writes about hard times in her life with such sincerity and insight into what she was going through. The theme throughout is of her marriage, her child and going through hurricane Katrina, in 2005. Very well written, which kept me wanting to read. We feel all of her uncertainties, in her relationship with …
It was interesting based on a true story.
more about messed up marriage than the hurricane
Not great writing but a good survival story about the importance of community.
This book gives an idea what it’s like to live through a hurricane. So it was interesting in that respect.
The rest was not believable.