by Heather M. Hoover (Author)

strong female protagonist considers the beauty and weight of matrilineal legacies-those mothers, grandmothers, and daughters who shape our stories. These poems consider the lives we have lived within those stories, the choices we made, and the heady potential to make new ones. strong female protagonist celebrates the many types of strong female protagonists revealed in the most quotidian of details-a bouquet of daffodils, an old photograph, a drive to work, even an insect in the windowsill.