Zena Sharman

February 03rd, 2026

“This book took ten years of grieving to write.” In Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose (Arsenal Pulp $24.95), Zena Sharman offers an honest memoir in essays about queer kinship, femme erotics, interdependence and parenting beyond the nuclear family. Writing from the experience of raising three children in a four-parent queer household, Sharman traces how grief, intergenerational trauma, care work and desire shape the ways we learn to stay—with each other and ourselves. Tender and politically sharp, the book challenges ideas of healing, independence and motherhood, while celebrating chosen family as a site of resistance and love. 9781834050164.

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