![]() ![]() ![]() I sat down with Austin to talk about queer library books, religion and writing the queer fiction you wish to see in the world. ![]() The interplay between queerness and mental health is a rich palette for painting a narrative, and through Gilda’s eyes, Austin lets us all feel the push and pull of what we know and what we think we know about ourselves and the world around us. ![]() It was an immersive experience, and a scintillating debut novel for the queer Canadian author. The muggy air around me only added to the intentional anxiety of Austin’s rapid-fire, disjointed prose as Gilda navigated a real relationship, a fake relationship with a self-help guru, hiding her homosexuality from the church and grappling with whether life means anything at all. I read Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead in the midst of a record-shattering heat wave here on the west coast of Canada. But when an attempt to respond to a local ad for therapy leads to the atheist lesbian accepting a dead woman’s job at a local Catholic church, Gilda’s obsession with death is thrown into the spotlight. A regular self-check-in at the local ER for repeated panic attacks, Gilda can barely keep a grasp on her relationship with her girlfriend. The death of a local church’s beloved secretary.Īustin’s protagonist Gilda is obsessed with death to the point of anxiety. Emily Austin’s debut novel Everyone in The Room Will Someday Be Dead is, unsurprisingly, about death. ![]()
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