Staff Picks Book Discussion

Join us each month for a lively conversation centered on titles selected by staff within a variety of genres.

In this group we will discuss Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin.

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 becomes obsessed with solving the mysterious death of the previous receptionist.

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