Rooney is also wrestling with her own celebrity and success as a novelist. The novel does not shy away from addressing religion. Fortunately, O’Connor also clarifies that “The Catholic novelist doesn’t have to be a saint he doesn’t even have to be a Catholic he does, unfortunately, have to be a novelist.” By this definition, Beautiful World, Where Are You invites us to contemplate Rooney as a Catholic novelist. Simultaneously, it is the work of a better, more mature novelist than her debut or sophomore efforts. In her essay “Catholic Novelists and Their Readers,” Flannery O’Connor says: “The Church should make the novelist a better novelist.” Though Irish novelist Sally Rooney has made headlines by claiming the Catholic Church “irrelevant” in her native Ireland, her latest book, Beautiful World, Where Are You, demonstrates surprising interest in and sympathy for Catholic belief.
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