Between Chapters

Bestselling author Zibby Owens has always had a remarkable gift for sharing life’s most relatable, unvarnished moments with a warmth and openness that make readers feel seen. For years, she has championed other storytellers, but in her highly anticipated new memoir, Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot, she finally invites us into her own incredible story. The book offers a front-row seat to her breathtaking decade of reinvention, charting her path from an Upper East Side stay-at-home mom of four to a divorced and remarried “book-fluencer,” author, publisher, award-winning podcaster, and independent bookstore owner. It is a story about the courage it takes to rewrite your life when the old script no longer fits, and it is the exact book we all need to read right now.

Reading Between Chapters feels like catching up with a brilliant, honest friend over coffee, where no topic is too embarrassing or too sacred to discuss. You will find yourself laughing out loud as Zibby shares the chaotic realities of modern parenting and romance, including moments like completely messing up “the birds and the bees” talk, getting stuck climbing an inflatable raft at her kids’ sleepaway camp, and navigating the exciting, unpredictable world of traveling with her new love. She embraces her mishaps with refreshing humility, proving that even as our worlds expand and our professional titles multiply, we remain wonderfully, messily human.

But this is far from a polished success story, and Zibby proudly invites readers right down into the forty-something trenches alongside her. With deep vulnerability, she chronicles the intimate, heavy fluctuations of midlife as she gains and loses weight, gains and loses friends, and makes what she candidly describes as a zillion mistakes along the way. She shows us how she found ways to turn her deepest struggles—the acute pain of divorce, the lingering shadows of grief, communal tragedy, and the bittersweet anticipation of an empty nest—into profound moments of connection. Between Chapters is a funny, tender, and unflinching reminder that life is a collection of distinct volumes, and that standing between chapters is simply the prelude to finding your own plot. Be sure to pick up your copy today and join Zibby on this unforgettable journey.