Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

WSIRN guest Grace picked this as a book she loves on episode 405: Books that pair with pumpkin spice. She describes it like this: "It's about a young woman, Gilda, who's a little bit depressed, a little bit anxious, and through an interesting turn of events, even though she herself is an atheist and a lesbian, she ends up working as the secretary of a Catholic Church to fill the role that's been recently opened up by the death of the former secretary. After she starts working there, she starts emailing back and forth with one of the former secretary's friends who does not realize that this other person has passed away. So, Gilda is pretending to be this person who has passed away. It's written in a stream-of-consciousness style. I just remember Gilda being so humorous and quirky, but also really real and relatable in her mental health struggles that she has and then the relationships that she's trying to create. I can only describe it as somehow simultaneously cozy, but also cold, comedic, but in a dark way. It really just stuck with me and kind of captured my heart."