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Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin
- Atlantic (Faber)
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Publisher | Atlantic (Faber) |
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ISBN | 9781838953751 |
Publication date | June 2022 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 256 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
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.