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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
A Buzzfeed 'Highly Anticipated Book' for 2021.
Critic Reviews
"Introducing the bumbling, anxious, helplessly kindhearted heroine we all need right now. Gilda might be an accidental Catholic, a lapsed lesbian, and an inept receptionist, but she's awfully good at helping us reckon-hilariously, tenderly-with our impending deaths." (Courtney Maum, author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You)
"As a queer woman whose brain can be a terrifying place, I devoured this novel about a panic-ridden lesbian who hides her sexuality to work at a Catholic Church. While the narrator is anxious beyond measure, the prose is self-assured - brisk and effortless, moving through time and space with ease. At its core, the novel is about the fragility of human life, kept fresh with an intriguing mystery and subtle moments of tenderness. Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a dreary truth but a delightful read." (Anna Dorn, author of Vagablonde)
"Anxious death-obsessed lesbians unite! I cackled and cringed in recognition while following the exploits of Gilda, who is plagued by intrusive thoughts about death and the absurdity of the human condition. Emily Austin is a unique and wry writer, and her debut novel manages to be both hilarious and profound, a winning combination." (Celia Laskey, author of Under the Rainbow)
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- R Wood
- 06-07-2022
Great start, flat end
This was a fantastic book, odd, cringe worthy and on the dark side.
I loved most of it, but found the ending to be flat.
Not everyone will get this book, but if you have a dark sense of humour you’ll love it.
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- Jane Krauss
- 29-01-2023
I am Gilda
I've never felt represented more in a book. Wow, Gilda is so relatable to me, maybe to relatable. I found myself laughing audibly and, in other moments, feeling sad about moments in her life that felt very familiar. I am so glad I picked this up!
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