Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

In this fun, page-turner of a novel (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that's perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor's mysterious death. Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence. With a kindhearted heroine we all need right now (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it's also what makes life beautiful (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).

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Emily Austin was born in Ontario, Canada, and received a writing grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts in 2020. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is her first novel.

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ISBN 13	9781982167363
ISBN 10	198216736X
Title	Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Author	Emily Austin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2022-06-28
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.