Between Chapters
How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot
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- Précommander
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- Sortie prévue le 22 sept. 2026
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- 9,99 €
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Featured in People magazine
“Zibby Owens writes like a woman with her life cracked wide open—and the courage to look straight inside. Between Chapters is funny, tender, unflinching, and so deeply human." —Jen Hatmaker, author of Awake
From the national bestselling author comes a heartfelt, humorous look at a book lover’s life in relaunch.
Bestselling author Zibby Owens is known for sharing relatable moments with a warmth and openness that make readers feel seen. In Between Chapters, she offers a front-row seat to her decade of reinvention as she goes from being an Upper East Side stay-at-home mom of four to a divorced and remarried “book-fluencer,” author, publisher, award-winning podcaster, and bookstore owner.
Laugh alongside Zibby as she shares moments like messing up “the birds and the bees” talk, getting stuck climbing an inflatable raft at her kids’ sleepaway camp, and traveling with her new love. Join her in the forty-something trenches as she gains and loses weight, gains and loses friends, makes a zillion mistakes, and finds ways to turn grief, divorce pain, communal tragedy, and the anticipation of an empty nest into moments of connection.
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Owens (Blank), founder of Zibby Media, delivers a raw and funny essay collection about her transition from stay-at-home mom to publisher, podcast host, and bookstore owner. A decade ago, Owens was living with her husband and their four children under 10 on the Upper East Side, but her marriage was on the rocks, and she craved a creative life. She took up tennis, fell in love with her instructor, and eventually married him after divorcing her husband. Here, she details the guilt she felt upending her children's lives, as well as the realization that "deep down I knew that I had to find joy and happiness or I wouldn't be able to be a parent at all." Reading helped her feel less lonely on days her kids were with her ex, and she began plowing through books. Eager to have more intimacy with writers, she started a podcast where she interviewed authors, launching her literary career. Elsewhere, Owens discusses the plight of motherhood (when clunkily explaining sex ed to her fourth-grade twins, she frets: "I ruined them"), taking weight loss drugs, her Jewish heritage, and the grief of losing a parent. Heartfelt and often humorous, this will make moms juggling parenting and a personal life feel seen.
