Grand Forks native Carrie Rubin, a physician and public health advocate who now resides in Ohio, just released her second book, "Eating Bull."
According to a release, the book centers on Jeremy, an obese teenager in Ohio who struggles with bullying and an undesirable home life. A nurse persuades him to sue the food industry, which throws Jeremy into the limelight, where he becomes a target for a serial killer who murders the obese.
"Several years ago in my clinic, a tearful, severely overweight teenage patient said to me, 'Not a day goes by I don't know I'm fat, because no one will let me forget it,' " Rubin said in the release. "Those heartbreaking words have stayed with me ever since and are what led me to make my latest protagonist a teenager, even though the novel itself is not young adult fiction."
"Eating Bull" can be found on Amazon in both paperback and e-book formats. Rubin's first book, "The Seneca Scourge," was released in 2012, and also is available in both formats.
Rubin has a master's degree in public health from the Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master of Public Health program. She received her medical degree from UND. She lives with her husband and two sons in Ohio, where she is a member of the Akron Children's Hospital medical staff.
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Find more information about Rubin and "Eating Bull" at carrierubin.com.
