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#28 - Grieving the Death of a Friend with Zibby Owens
The one and only Zibby Owens joins me to talk about her memoir, Bookends, and her experiences grieving the death of three close friends.
In her new book, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, Zibby tells several story threads at the same time, all organized around the books Zibby was reading when events occurred. It starts as a personal family history of Zibby's grandparents rising in America, her own childhood, education, and career story. It's a motherhood story and a romance, too. But very central to this memoir is the tragedy of losing close friends too soon. Bookends in many…
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