NAKED: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane Katrina
by Julie FreedBook Overview
"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 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 stunningly poignant book candidly reveals intimate details of her life with clarity but not a whiff of "poor, pitiful me." In facing the end of her marriage and the end of life as she had known it on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, Freed exhibited the strength other Mississippians also showed in response to this country's worst natural disaster. She persevered - and she wrote a damn good book." ~Nancy Kay Wessman author of Katrina, Mississippi: Voices from Ground Zero
"Occasionally, real-life setbacks smash into authors'lives with the degree of intensity usually found in fiction. Julie Freed's memoir recounts just such an extreme situation ... The strengths Julie Freed draws on in her life are generously passed along to her readers, reminding us that just past the darkness, there is dawn." ~Jerry Waxler, author of Memoir Revolution
"A heart-wrenching true story told with dignity." ~ Victoria Twead, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Old Fools Series.
"It is a rare talent that can make you feel the emotions portrayed in words and Freed accomplished this. Showing that true strength and power can derive from the lowest of places. NAKED is one memoir that I am glad I read." ~ 125 Pages Book Review
"Her intention is to show how close we all are, at any moment in time, to unexpected, monumental and life altering change. An intelligent 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
