Saint Catherine

Catherine is in her twenties, Irish American, and raised Catholic. She has mostly traded church for a city life of work, family and relationships, but one old fear stays with her: that skipping Sunday Mass will bring some kind of punishment.

The first time she does skip it, the fear proves right. A demon who claims to be a prince of hell takes hold of her.

Catherine sets out to drive the demon out. The other thing she has to get rid of is the guilt she has carried since childhood, which turns the exorcism into a personal reckoning as much as a supernatural one.

This is a graphic novel, and it treats possession as a metaphor for inherited Catholic guilt. The tone is blunt and funny, with a tender streak running underneath.

The question the book turns on is what "being good" has really meant to Catherine all along, and whether she can answer it while a demon is living in her.