Böcker av Catina Noble

August 6, 1992Life is pretty weird and hard to handle. It always is. Why can't you leave your body and switch to someone else's, huh? I have so many questions and no answers.Image in the RiverThe image in the riveris crying for help.The image in the riveris crying.The image in the river issaying goodbye until itfinally disappears forever.I didn't even know the imagein the river.-Catina Noble

There is a wide range of emotions in Catina Noble's collection of short stories, Vacancy at the Food Court. From the opaque void of the unknown to the unrefined, raw state of mere existence, Ms Noble explores the complicated aspects of life. In fact, even the title suggests that there is a void, an emptiness in a place, a food court, where one would not expect to be alone.

Two years in the life of a teenage girl."When I pour my heart down on paper there is a record that I am a human being with feelings and no one can judge me right away."A lot of people ask me why I write so much and the point behind it. I write because I love it. I write mainly to get thoughts out of my head and sort out how I feel. I am always so confused about everything. I also hope that one day when I no longer exist, someone somewhere will forgive me for all the things I have done wrong and not hold it against me. Hopefully I will answer some questions in my many journals. Maybe this will be helpful to someone else." - Cat

I'm sure we all must have told ourselves, at least once while growing up, that life couldn't possibly get worse. As Rod Serling, host of the ancient TV show, *The Twilight Zone*, actually never said, "Imagine if you will," being the eldest female child in a family with no parenting. Imagine being "Mommy" to a pair of irresponsible, substance-addicted adult children. Imagine taking on the responsibility of being the nanny for younger siblings, the maid for lazy, hungover parents, the literal whipping girl for a father's outbursts. Catina Noble has nailed it in *Finding Evie*. She has managed to portray Evie Feathers as though she herself had lived through each and every soul-destroying experience and come out, not merely as a survivor, but as a thriver. Finding Evie holds hope between its covers for neglected children.