Annie Noblin, an English instructor at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, recently published her second novel. “Just Fine with Caroline”, published by William Morrow Paperbacks for HarperCollins Publishers, tells the tale of a three-legged pot belly pig and a dog. The novel has been called “an unforgettable story about love, friendship, and community,” by the publisher.
In the Novel, the protagonist, Caroline O’Connor, returns to her home in Cold River Missouri. She describes the town as the Ozark Mountain town where everyone is ‘up your business,’ but everyone means well. Although she never thought she would return home, she returns to help her mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Her father is a local doctor who is deeply frustrated that he can’t cure his own wife’s illness.
Caroline is doing ‘just fine’ coping with her parents, her cousin’s marital disasters, her mostly-deaf dog, and a man infamous for running moonshine.
Caroline believes she knows everything about Cold River and the people who call the hills and hollers their home, but sometimes the greatest surprises happen closest to home.
Noblin lives with her son, husband, and three dogs in the Missouri Ozarks. She has a Master’s Degree in creative writing from Missouri State University. She is well-known for her love of animals and spends a lot of her free time working with animal shelters to save homeless dogs across the country.
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