"Through an exploration of more than a dozen Catholic authors' novels and short stories, the author argues that Catholic fiction encourages the reader to reflect upon the way faith informs one's affections, and how a person conceives and interacts with the world as embodied beings. Catholic fiction portrays faith--at its most fundamental, often unconscious, level--as an act of the imagination. Authors discussed include Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, Toni Morrison, Alice McDermott, and Uwem Akpan"--