The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V.E. Schwab

A young woman in 18th-century France strikes a desperate bargain with a mysterious entity to escape an arranged marriage, gaining immortality at the cost of being instantly forgotten by everyone she meets. Over three centuries she wanders the world unseen and unremembered, forming a strange, recurring relationship with the being who cursed her, until one day in modern New York a man in a bookshop remembers her name. The novel weaves between Addie's past and present as she grapples with what it means to leave a mark on the world when no one can recall you existed.