“A graceful and spare memoir of personal transformation and loss. . . . A moving tribute to an unconventional person and the love she shared with the author.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A love story in poetic glimpses—glimpses that accumulate to become a sweeping narrative, lyrical and impressionistic and irresistibly compelling. It’s a smooth, sexy, jazzy delight to read, even when it’s heartbreaking, as love stories almost inevitably are. Ultimately, Fly, My Darling offers us a larger vision—of how unexpectedly love comes, and how capacious it can be, and how it transforms and deepens us.”—Cecilia Woloch, author of Sur la Route and Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem

“In prose that is as close to music as it is to poetry, Lisa Richter spins a luminous tale of her search for a true self: a complex dance that has her partnering with grievous loss, sultry desire, all forms of art, and above all love.”—Sands Hall, author of Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

“Richter’s joyous and haunting memoir is a tender portrait of a surprising romance that, at mid-life, transformed the author, creating for readers an ‘authentic, moving, beautiful’ experience that is likely to transform them as well.”—Lisa Alvarez, author of Some Final Beauty and Other Stories