Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Emily Austin's darkly funny Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is already a contender for the best book of 2021. That's thanks in large part to the story's wonderfully complex protagonist Gilda, a lesbian and atheist who inadvertently ends up working as a secretary for a Catholic church after showing up for a free counseling session. Soon, Gilda's perpetually anxious mind can't stop fixating on her deceased predecessor — which becomes even more troubling when she begins impersonating the woman via email.