TY  - BOOK
AU  - Austin, Emily
TI  - Everyone in this room will someday be dead
SN  - 9781838953751
U1  - Fiction AUS-E 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Atlantic Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - Receptionists
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - Church buildings
KW  - Atheists
KW  - Death
N1  - Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist Grace. It's not the most obvious job - she's queer and an atheist for starters - and so in between trying to learn mass, hiding her new maybe-girlfriend and conducting an amateur investigation into Grace's death, Gilda must avoid revealing the truth of her mortifying existence.

A blend of warmth, deadpan humour, and pitch-perfect observations about the human condition, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling exploration of what it takes to stay afloat in a world where your expiration - and the expiration of those you love - is the only certainty
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