‘Vicious’ author V.E. Schwab talks ‘Addie LaRue’: ‘I was afraid every single moment’

When V.E. Schwab was 22, she was living in a garden shed in someone’s backyard in Liverpool. One day while she was hiking and thinking about her grandmother’s dementia and what it meant for her mother, she decided to write a book about a girl who was forgotten.Only now, when Schwab is 33, is “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” finally done. It’s out on Oct. 6, one day after publishing a moving essay on coming out for oprahmag.com.
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