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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Auteur(s): Emily Austin
Narrateur(s): Emily Tremaine
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 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). Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction femmes Fiction littéraire Littérature et fiction Comédie

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"Tremaine's pacing and delivery capture Gilda's mounting anxiety as she spirals out of control, becoming increasingly preoccupied with death and disaster as her life crumbles around her. Tremaine's characterizations bring heart to Gilda's well-meaning co-workers, complex family members, and unique friendships."
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Really enjoyed this book and hope to find a similar one for my next read!
So refreshingly different how Gilda‘s thinking is explained. I can see myself in it quite often. But those are feelings and thoughts the society just doesn’t talk about!!

Really like this book. Refreshingly different!

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despite having so much in common with the protagonist (a queer woman who's coded as ASD neurodivergent with massive anxiety and depression, struggling to mask and survive under capitalism and in a Catholic community)
even though I could relate so deeply to the experiences, I found the delivery and writing style to be psuedo-deep, juvenile, and trite.
None of the character's seemingly relevatory inner monologues- despite being deeply relateable- felt compelling. They felt recycled, like old tumblr posts

sophomoric

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If you want a fun read, this is probably not it. If you are susceptible to falling into depression from hearing someone else be depressed for a whole book, this book is also probably not for you. I would not describe it as a page turner, but it was interesting and I enjoyed the ways the protagonist experienced and explained the oddities of working for a church.

Not particularly fun

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A sweet story with à neurodivergent protagonist who gets caught up in a crime mystery. Reminiscent of “The Maid” if that helps. Loved this one.

Loved it

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