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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel

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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Published Jun 28, 2022

256 pages

Average rating: 6.56

189 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

ajhughes19
Jan 08, 2023
2/10 stars
This story has some jarring moments and a bit of mystery element to it but otherwise was a little disappointing. The main character's voice didn't quite capture the persona of a person with anxiety and depression well enough for it to be relatable. The ending seemed a bit to easily cinched up and happily ever after-esque. Overall a pretty unsatisfying read.
Kareneve
Jun 14, 2025
1/10 star
No plot and it was basically all the same about being mired and anxiety and Never showing a way out or improvement.
OkayDesirae
Apr 21, 2025
5/10 stars
Spoiler Alert
zoography
Mar 07, 2025
10/10 stars
favorite january read!
Hayden Mattick
Nov 18, 2024
6/10 stars
3.5

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