Publisher's Synopsis
UNA NOVELA LLENA DE HUMOR Y TERNURA QUE NOS ENSEÑA QUE EL MIEDO A LA MUERTE SE PUEDE CONVERTIR EN AMOR POR LA VIDA. REVELADORA Y RECONFORTANTE.
Todo un bestseller independiente de Norte América: uno de los grandes fenómenos bocaoreja de los últimos años.
Un debut luminoso, cuyo humor y ternura brillan en cada página. Un libro para todos aquellos que buscamos un sentido en un mundo caótico y extraño.
Gilda teme a la muerte, lo normal. Solo que quizá la teme demasiado. Tanto que provoca accidentes, colapsa las urgencias hospitalarias, preocupa a sus seres queridos con presuntos infartos, tumores, enfermedades irreversibles. Sin embargo, tras perder su enésimo trabajo, lo más factible es que acabe muriendo de hambre. Cuando entra a trabajar de ayudante del párroco en la iglesia St. Rigobert tiene que esconder que es hipocondrìaca, atea y lesbiana. Piensa que será cuestión de semanas encontrar otro trabajo… Pero entonces sabrá del fallecimiento de Grace Moppet, su predecesora en el puesto, quien puede que no muriese de forma natural. Y tal vez, si consigue averiguar quién la mató, consiga salvarse a sì misma. Recuperamos la tradición de Blackie Books de publicar grandes libros que nos hacen la vida mejor a través del humor y la empatìa.
En la lìnea de Prohibido nacer, Cosas que los nietos deberìan saber y Los asquerosos.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
In this "fun, page-turner of a novel" (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that's perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor's mysterious death.
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 strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.
With a "kindhearted heroine we all need right now" (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), 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).
