![]() The rules of Addie’s curse to be forgotten are exaggerated depictions of the realities of being a woman and/or a part of other marginalized communities for much of history: barred from most paid work, unable to hold property, and erased from recorded history. It’s also a book about the realities of moving through the world as a (white) woman. It’s a book about the loneliness of feeling like life is passing too fast.” And I started to realize, oh my God, this is not a book about a deal with the devil. I’m running out of time.’ And that concept of running out of time, which then trickled through Henry and trickled through Addie. When I was 29 and I realized, ‘Oh my God, I have to get it down on paper. In fact, I didn’t really know until my fear of writing the book wrong became replaced by fear of dying without writing the book at all. ![]() “ something I was aware of when I was 10 and 16 and 22,” says Schwab, “but I didn’t know that was going to be the central theme of the book. But anxieties are not always rational-it is so very human to be conscious of the passing of time, and it is so very millennial to be anxious about not finishing what feels important before the next tragedy strikes. From her books and short stories to her social media presence and this speech, Schwab has already left her mark on recorded history. ![]() At the age of 33, Schwab has already published 21 books (if you count graphic novels, which we do). She is impossibly lonely and then, one day, she meets a man named Henry and he does something impossible too: he remembers her.Ī narrative about a girl cursed to be forgotten is perhaps an ironic story for Schwab to tell. The curse keeps her from being unable to hold property, unable to keep a regular job, and unable to have any kind of sustained relationship. Three hundred years later, in 2014 New York City, Addie is still defiantly living, but it hasn’t been easy. The pact’s fine print is put in place by the god-like creature Addie calls Luc as a tactic for convincing Addie to more quickly give up her immortal life and surrender her soul. ![]() At the time, she was living in someone’s Liverpudlian shed and, in an effort to get away for the day, took up a housemate on her offer of a ride to the U.K.’s picturesque Lake District.Īddie LaRue is an 18th-century French woman who makes a deal with the devil to live forever and, in the process, is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. It’s a long time coming for the author, who first imagined up the idea of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue almost a decade ago, in 2011. The book is not only written, but poised to hit bookshelves in less than a week, on October 6th. “Everyone in my life was like, ‘Please stop talking about the damn book you haven’t written.'”īy those rules, Schwab can now talk about The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue as much as she damn well pleases. “I never shut the fuck up about this book before I wrote it,” Schwab says, with a laugh, when I interview her again in 2020 and mention the conversation two years prior. Schwab was in the midst of a promotional tour for Vengeful, the second book in her Villains series, with the launch of her middle grade fantasy series City of Ghosts just around the corner, but she couldn’t help but also mention then work-in-progress The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. It was July 2018 and we were sitting in the lobby of the Hilton Bayfront Hotel during San Diego Comic Con. Schwab, she told me about The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Suddenly thrust back into a real, normal life, Addie realises she can’t escape her fate forever.The first time I ever interviewed V.E. Until one day, in a second hand bookshop in Manhattan, Addie meets someone who remembers her. Alone in the world, Addie has no choice but to confront him, to understand him, maybe to beat him. Her only companion on this journey is her dark devil with hypnotic green eyes, who visits her each year on the anniversary of their deal. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day. But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.Īddie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. When Addie LaRue makes a deal with devil, she trades her soul for immortality. Please note that we have now sold out of the Signed Edition.
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