While it isn't a lot like it, this book reminded me an awful lot of The Time Traveler's Wife. Ann Brashares also wrote The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The two main characters, Sophia and Daniel, are old souls who have been reincarnated several times over hundreds of years and thousands of miles. Daniel narrates that reincarnation happens all the time but that most people have no memory of their past lives, except in random flashes or in their dreams.
Daniel is one of the rare few who does remember his pasts, and feels the burden heavily. He met Sophia in one of his first lives and has tried to find her in each one since. This may sound like science fiction or New Age drivel, but the book is so well written, and the characters so interesting, that I really wanted to read it and find out what happened. Daniel struggles to convince Sophia (in each of her successive forms) that they know and love each other.
I will warn anyone who wants to pick it up, though, the ending is one of those non-endings that leaves you vaguely unsatisfied. I'm not sure if there is a sequel planned, or if the author had another purpose. I did see on her website that the book is going to be made into a movie.
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