Fly Me to the Moon, by Judith A. Hamer
A Memoir of Late-in-Life Interracial Romance
After forty-two years in a deteriorating marriage, Judy believes her chance at lasting happiness has passed. Widowed, grieving, and burdened by guilt, she is not looking for love when she meets Bill Buckley at a Fourth of July party in Westport, Connecticut. But Bill—a white widower, filmmaker, and recovering alcoholic with a gift for making her laugh—finds a way past her guarded heart.
Their connection is unexpected, tender, and complicated. As Judy and Bill build a life together, they must navigate skeptical adult children, the wounds of previous marriages, the realities of aging, and the insults that still confront an interracial couple in America.
Set to the jazz standards that propel their love, Fly Me to the Moon is a moving memoir of vintage love: a story of grief and delight, second chances, and the courage to say, even after loss, I’m still here.
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