Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot - Paperback

by Zibby Owens (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Zibby Owens is the bestselling author and editor of six books including Blank, Bookends, Princess Charming, and On Being Jewish Now, which has spent 29 weeks on the USA Today bestseller list. She has contributed to Vogue, Oprah Daily, Good Morning America, and the Washington Post, and writes a bestselling weekly Substack. Owens hosts the award-winning podcast Totally Booked with Zibby and the weekly TV show Totally Booked with Zibby on JBS (Jewish Broadcasting Service). A frequent speaker, moderator and broadcast guest, Owens is known for highlighting the book industry's most anticipated new releases and emerging authors. In 2021 she founded Zibby Media with the launch of Zibby Publishing and unique year-round hosted retreats and events for book lovers. In 2023, she opened Zibby's Bookshop, the independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Owens, a mother of four, lives in New York and L.A. with her husband.