BOOKENDS A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

Zibby Owens recounts her meandering path from coping with self-doubt and battling an eating disorder to launching a successful podcasting career. She treats listeners to her characteristic honesty whether she's describing crippling self-consciousness or later love and finding her métier. Owens's style is gentle, easy on the ears, and relatable. She chronicles her search for happiness as a young woman and then a first-time mother with frankness that many will find refreshing. Listeners will at first root for her and then be exhilarated when she finds love and confidence in using her unique voice through a pandemic-related podcast about motherhood, reading, and life. Owens weaves together several themes that mirror her own complexity and that of contemporary womanhood. M.R. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2022]