Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman by Éloïse Marseille

“Funny, empathetic, easy to read, and above all very intelligent…” —Julie Delporte, author of This Woman’s Work

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.

Nominated for the Doug Wright Award for Best Book

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“Funny, empathetic, easy to read and above all very intelligent, Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman is perhaps the sex-ed lesson we’ve all been sorely missing: That it’s normal to feel abnormal, because there shouldn’t be any norms.”
—Julie Delporte, author of This Woman’s Work

“In her book Naked—and never has a title been quite so apt—Eloise Marseille lines up a series of taboo topics and takes full ownership of them, creating a memoir that’s as honest as they come. It’s also deeply engaging and beautifully made.”
—Mike Donachie, The Toronto Star

“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.”
—Booklife (Editor’s Pick)

“A candid and funny memoir… that is both empowering and raw.”
—CBC Books (Best Canadian Comics of 2023)

“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.”
—Alison Kent, Graphic Medicine

“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.”
—Montreal Campus

“Naked is a touching, funny, and bold graphic memoir that will challenge our deepest shame and might even offer a path towards self-acceptance.”
—Louise Tripp, No Flying No Tights