Joan Chase

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During the Reign of the Queen of PersiaPaperback, 15 April 2014

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Part of Series
New York Review Books (Paperback)
Print Length
215 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Date Published
15 Apr 2014
ISBN-10
1590177150
ISBN-13
9781590177150

Description

A multigenerational family drama about grief, motherhood, and coming of age, all taking place on an Ohio farm.

Joan Chase's subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of "joy and ruin" deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.

The Queen of Persia is not an exotic figure but a fierce Ohio farmwife who presides over a household of daughters and granddaughters. The novel tells their stories through the eyes of the youngest members of the family, four cousins who spend summers on the farm, for them both a life-giving Eden and the source of terrible discoveries about desire and loss. The girls bicker and scrap, they whisper secrets at bedtime, and above all, they observe the kinds of women their mothers are and wonder what kind of women they will become. But always present is the family's great trauma, the decline and eventual death from cancer of Gram's daughter Grace.

A powerful story about family ties and tensions, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is also a book about place, charting the transformation of the old hardscrabble Midwest into the commercial wilderness of modern America.

Product Details

Author:
Joan Chase
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 April 2014
Dimensions:
20.73 x 13.16 x 1.32 cm
Genre:
Coming of Age
ISBN-10:
1590177150
ISBN-13:
9781590177150
Language:
English
Pages:
215
Weight:
244.94 gm

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