Between Chapters
How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot
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- Expected Sep 22, 2026
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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 and award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens’s life today is very different than it was ten years ago. She went from being an Upper East Side stay-at-home-mom of four to becoming a “book-fluencer” adored by authors and readers, a bookstore owner, publisher, TV personality, event host, and community builder. In her decade of reinvention, like so many women, she gained and lost weight, gained and lost friends. Her lifelong passion for writing and reading helped her through it, as did the many conversations she had with authors on her podcast.
In Between Chapters, Zibby opens up about the chances she took and mistakes she made, sharing stories of friendship, parenting, divorce, loss, and love.
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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.
