In Emily Austin’s debut novel Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead, Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. In an attempt to take control of her debilitating anxiety, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and too embarrassed to correct the pastor who assumes she’s there for a job interview, Gilda finds herself with a new job, replacing the church’s recently-deceased receptionist Grace.