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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
by Emily Austin
4.5/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Later this month will mark one year since I started taking anti-anxiety medication. Had “Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead” been published a year ago, before I started taking medication, I don’t know if I could have read it. It pricked at my hypochondria and reminds me of when catastrophic thinking and panic attacks were the norm. It’s a testament to Emily Austin’s skill as a writer, and something to consider before picking this book up.
Gilda is a 27-year-old atheist and lesbian. She goes to the emergency room so frequently that even the janitor is on a first-name basis with her. They tell her she’s likely having panic attacks, but because she never hears back from the psychiatrists she’s referred to, she continues going to the ER, calling the Telehealth line, and half-heartedly buying vitamin supplements, despite her unemployment. Believing she’s found a flyer for free therapy, Gilda somehow ends up replacing a recently deceased secretary at a Catholic Church, complicating her anxiety-ridden existence.
This book is funny and anxious, morbid and reflective. Gilda looks at life in constant fear and anticipation of its eventual end. She worries about her brother, she’s inattentive to her kind-of-girlfriend, and while terrified of death, she chases it down every dark alley she finds. This book is strange; if you’ve read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you’ll find this book familiar, if not a bit darker (if that’s possible). I read this in a single day because I was so completely absorbed in Gilda’s inner monologue. My one complaint is that the ending feels a bit too rushed and happy. There’s a lot going on, and everything is resolved in one fell swoop. I wouldn’t have minded an extra dozen pages if it meant exploring the consequences of… everything Gilda did. I think had the ending been fuller, I would’ve rounded up to five stars instead of down to four.
If you were looking for something that is somehow dark, emotional, funny, and (kinda) lighthearted all at once, then I strongly recommend picking this up.
Later this month will mark one year since I started taking anti-anxiety medication. Had “Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead” been published a year ago, before I started taking medication, I don’t know if I could have read it. It pricked at my hypochondria and reminds me of when catastrophic thinking and panic attacks were the norm. It’s a testament to Emily Austin’s skill as a writer, and something to consider before picking this book up.
Gilda is a 27-year-old atheist and lesbian. She goes to the emergency room so frequently that even the janitor is on a first-name basis with her. They tell her she’s likely having panic attacks, but because she never hears back from the psychiatrists she’s referred to, she continues going to the ER, calling the Telehealth line, and half-heartedly buying vitamin supplements, despite her unemployment. Believing she’s found a flyer for free therapy, Gilda somehow ends up replacing a recently deceased secretary at a Catholic Church, complicating her anxiety-ridden existence.
This book is funny and anxious, morbid and reflective. Gilda looks at life in constant fear and anticipation of its eventual end. She worries about her brother, she’s inattentive to her kind-of-girlfriend, and while terrified of death, she chases it down every dark alley she finds. This book is strange; if you’ve read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you’ll find this book familiar, if not a bit darker (if that’s possible). I read this in a single day because I was so completely absorbed in Gilda’s inner monologue. My one complaint is that the ending feels a bit too rushed and happy. There’s a lot going on, and everything is resolved in one fell swoop. I wouldn’t have minded an extra dozen pages if it meant exploring the consequences of… everything Gilda did. I think had the ending been fuller, I would’ve rounded up to five stars instead of down to four.
If you were looking for something that is somehow dark, emotional, funny, and (kinda) lighthearted all at once, then I strongly recommend picking this up.