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EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD
For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Jenny Offill and Halle Butler, EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD is told from the perspective of a pathologically anxious, morbid 27 year-old woman who stumbles into a job as receptionist for a Catholic Church where she obsesses over her predecessor's suspicious death.
Responding to a flyer for free therapy, Gilda finds herself on the steps of St. Rigobert's Catholic church. Too embarrassed to contradict Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview, Gilda is hired to replace the elderly, recently deceased receptionist Grace Moppet.
In between trying to learn the lines to Catholic mass and hide her new maybe-girlfriend Eleanor, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend Rosemary Reeves. But she can't tell Rosemary that Grace is dead (how to say it? Grace is no longer with us - no, too vague! Grace is dead - agh, too blunt!) so Gilda decides to impersonate Grace.
When the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda might have to reveal the true extent of her own mortifying existence...
With its deadpan wit, Emily Austin's crackling debut is for any reader who has ever felt like an outsider, watching the rituals of daily life unfold as if through binoculars. Gilda is just doing her best to stay afloat - and really, aren't we all?
Emily Austin is a Canadian writer. She is the recipient of a 2020 writing grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to aid in the completion of her feminist LGBTQ poetry collection rewriting biblical stories. She lives in Ottawa.
In between trying to learn the lines to Catholic mass and hide her new maybe-girlfriend Eleanor, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend Rosemary Reeves. But she can't tell Rosemary that Grace is dead (how to say it? Grace is no longer with us - no, too vague! Grace is dead - agh, too blunt!) so Gilda decides to impersonate Grace.
When the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda might have to reveal the true extent of her own mortifying existence...
With its deadpan wit, Emily Austin's crackling debut is for any reader who has ever felt like an outsider, watching the rituals of daily life unfold as if through binoculars. Gilda is just doing her best to stay afloat - and really, aren't we all?
Emily Austin is a Canadian writer. She is the recipient of a 2020 writing grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to aid in the completion of her feminist LGBTQ poetry collection rewriting biblical stories. She lives in Ottawa.
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Published 2021-07-01 |