"When I was 22 and knew nothing at all about art, a good friend drove me five hours from the small town in Michigan where I was living to see a retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work at the Chicago Art Institute. I remember looking at an enormous canvas of clouds, flat and cell-like against a lucid blue background, feeling sure no one had ever captured the sky exactly that way, and probably never would again. Since then, I’ve been fascinated by O’Keeffe’s work, and the mystery that surrounded her life. Her independence and staggering originality. The austere, high-priestess expression on her face in photographs. I tried to write a novel about her years ago, even before The Paris Wife was published. I read half a dozen biographies, studied her paintings, and her letters, and wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages, but could never find the right framework. Her life and legend were simply too big to tackle properly, I finally decided, and moved on—regretfully. But when Audible Originals came to me looking for a story, I knew I would try again, and look closer this time—focusing on one transformative summer in the middle of her life, when a chance meeting with an iconoclastic young woman helps her recognize what matters most, what’s hers to claim and can’t—won’t—ever die. It means so much for me to be able to share this story, 30 years in the making! I hope you enjoy! " – Paula McLain, creator of Something That Cannot Die