Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Fans of Goodbye, Vitamin and Mostly Dead Things will love this "fun, page-turner of a novel," written by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Haywood. A morbidly anxious young woman works as a receptionist at a Catholic church by accident and quickly becomes fixated on her predecessor's unexplained death.

Gilda is a twentysomething lesbian who loves animals but is agnostic and obsessive about death. She answers to a poster for free treatment at a nearby Catholic church, desperate for respite from her racing thoughts and alienation from her controlling family. Father Jeff greets her there and believes she is there for a job interview. Gilda is recruited unexpectedly to take over for the recently dead receptionist Grace because she is too ashamed to reprimand him.

While attempting to commit Catholic mass lines to memory, concealing her new partner, and building a dishtower in her dilapidated flat, Gilda initiates an email exchange with Grace's former acquaintance. Although she can't stand to ignore the lovely elderly lady who has been attempting to contact her friend via the church mailbox, she also finds it difficult to deliver the bad news. She starts posing as Grace via email because she is desperate. However, Gilda could have to finally face the truth about her embarrassing past when the authorities uncover strange circumstances surrounding Grace's death.

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), with a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author).