She can do many things, try out many things, have many lovers, knowing that anything that goes wrong will disappear from memory. The price, she finds out, is that people forget her as soon as they leave the room, or after a night's sleep. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue shows me both how right and how wrong I was.Īdeline makes a deal with the devil to live as long as she wants and to be free of things like marriage and children, a singular aspiration for a young woman in the 17th century. If I could affect other people, the culture, the society, the world, in ways that went unnoticed, because the transformations I helped bring about had become the unremarkable norm, what a triumph that would be! Of course, it would help if at least one person knew and could tell me, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Addie does more living than we see on the page, but for the purposes of this narrative, I tried to use art and Western culture to develop a path for her.I've often thought that my greatest legacy would be-to be forgotten. She wouldn't be able to go on anything that required identification, that she couldn't stow away on. I had to be aware of her own travel limitations because even though she is forgettable, she's not invisible. So, I started looking at tracing Addie along the path of cultural development in the Western world. She enjoys art and culture and refinement. She is somebody who did not sign up for immortality to travel. I needed to remember that Addie is a unique individual, and as a person is several things. There was a temptation to be like, "This is Addie in Tokyo, this is Addie in Mexico City." I didn't want to treat Addie as a doorway to these places. In the end, I realized that I needed to narrow it down in some way. I would go on research trips where I would try and figure out what path Addie would take. I became a collector of memories for a really long time, a collector of places.
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