34 pages 1 hour read

Emily Austin

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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Part 3 Summary: “Ordinary Time”

Gilda visits Jeff during confessional to confess all of the things that have been weighing on her: her fight with her parents, her ruse at work, and her poor mental health. She finds confessional unhelpful, as she continues to stew in her problems. Eleanor gives Gilda Thin Mint cookies, which the latter once mentioned liking. The gesture is heartbreaking to Gilda, who spends most of her time distant from Eleanor. Gilda’s apartment continues to deteriorate, as she breaks her cupboard in anger after stashing the cookies.

Eli has been missing for several days, leading Gilda to follow strangers whom she believes resemble Eli. She begins panicking about Eli being dead. Gilda takes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in order to combat her anxiety and depression. At first, they make her situation worse, but eventually help her. Gilda spends her birthday with Ingrid, a childhood friend whom she’s grown distant from, though they keep up their annual ritual of gifting each other a stuffed animal on their birthdays. Gilda spends her time with Giuseppe wishing she was with Eleanor.

Barney shares murder statistics with Gilda, who then begins worrying about being murdered. She wants to find out who murdered Grace and begins suspecting Jeff, who wears a ring from Grace.