This is a love story.

Two artists—a dancer and a writer—meet in mid-life during stays at an artist retreat in California. They immediately fall in love, marry, live together for two dozen years. Just as instantly, the husband suffers injuries in a car accident that lead to his unexpected death. The wife, widowed and grieving, begins to write, penning the memories of her life with her husband and the days in the hospital leading up to his death—reflecting on surviving tragedy and loss as a way to enter this new chapter of her life.

Kris O’Shee courageously muses on falling in love at first sight with her late husband, teacher, novelist, and NPR’s All Things Considered “voice of books” Alan Cheuse, whose death in the summer of 2015 after a car crash left her widowed.

Praise for Our Last Blue Moon

“Both elegy and eulogy, this book describes a heart-stopping devotion to one whose heart has stopped.”

— Nicholas Delbanco, author of the nonfiction Why Writing Matters and the novel It Is Enough

“What a rare, beautiful book… Kris O'Shee tells this story with sensuality, spirituality, and the radiance of love that abides.”

— Stephen Goodwin, author of Breaking Her Fall, The Blood of Paradise, and Kin

“Kris O’Shee’s memoir about her late husband, Alan Cheuse, is written with grace, charm, wit, and mischief. It’s a book Alan would have loved.”

— Molly Giles, author of Creek Walk and Other Stories, Iron Shoes, Rough Translations, and Wife With Knife

“I am captivated by the authenticity of Kris O'Shee's voice. At once passionate, playful and profound, O'Shee’s creation is a warm, funny testament to what ultimately endures in a life lived together and apart.”

— Susan Richards Shreve, author, most recently, of the novels You Are the Love of my Life and More News Tomorrow, and the memoir Traces of a Childhood.