Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot
Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot
by Zibby Owens
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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.
About the Author
Zibby Owens is the bestselling author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, and Princess Charming. She is the editor of two anthologies: Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology.Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which includes the Zibby Publishing boutique publishing house, Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, the award-winning daily podcast Totally Booked with Zibby, which she hosts, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby Retreats for book lovers.
Editorial Reviews
"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. These essays meet us in the messy middle of becoming, where nothing is certain but everything is alive. If you’ve ever found yourself starting over, questioning everything, or scribbling your way through the chaos just to make sense of it, you will feel profoundly seen here. This book is a companion, a permission slip, and a reminder: it is never too late to rewrite your story." —Jen Hatmaker, author of Awake
“It’s wonderful! Intimate, frank, and familiar, Between Chapters is pure delight. It is as warm and engaging as morning coffee with a best friend. Zibby parses the joys and pains of midlife awakening and reinvention in these bite-sized essays, each one landing with authenticity and humor and honesty." —Susan Orlean, author of Joyride
“A reminder to us all that the messy middle of life is no joke! Disarmingly honest, funny, and a raw exploration of the choices we make and why we make them.” —Amy Griffin, author of The Tell
“Funny, moving, and wonderfully relatable. With her signature wit, Zibby reflects on the many roles that shape a life—mom, author, entrepreneur, wife, friend. Each essay leaves you smiling, nodding, or seeing your own life a little more clearly. I absolutely loved it!” —Fran Hauser, author of The Myth of the Nice Girl and owner of Bedford Books
“An inspiring story about reinvention, entrepreneurship, motherhood, and finding your people.” —Bobbi Brown, author of Still Bobbi and founder of Jones Road Beauty
“Delightful. This will resonate with so many women! Zibby creates a colorful pastiche of an unabashedly honest New York mom, proving we crystallize into our bravest and best selves in middle age, and that it’s never too late for a career reboot, and the best is yet to come.” —Jill Kargman, creator of “Odd Mom Out” and author of Momzillas
“Like having coffee with an old friend—Zibby’s essays are dishy, refreshingly honest, and true. Grab your cappuccino and catch up with Zibby in this fresh and funny new book.” —Eileen Heisler & DeAnn Heline, creators and executive producers of The Middle
“I loved this book and read it in one sitting! Warm, funny, and deeply moving, Between Chapters captures the moment so many women reach in midlife when they realize the script they’ve been following no longer fits. With humor and honesty, it reminds us that starting over isn’t failure, it’s the beginning of the most authentic chapter yet.” —Elyce Arons, author of We Might Just Make it After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade
"Zibby's memoir-in-essays is so real, so honest about marriage and having kids and work and community. Funny, brave, and sometimes heartbreaking—really, it's all the best adjectives." —Caroline Leavitt, author of Days of Wonder
“It’s completely terrific. I absolutely love it.” —Katie Sise, author of You Must Be New Here