{"product_id":"during-the-reign-of-the-queen-of-9781590177150","title":"During The Reign Of The Queen Of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA multigenerational family drama about grief, motherhood, and coming of age, all taking place on an Ohio farm.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan  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 \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e and Alice Munro’s \u003ci\u003eLives of Girls and Women\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful story about family ties and tensions, \u003ci\u003eDuring the Reign of the Queen of Persia\u003c\/i\u003e is also a book about place, charting the transformation of the old  hardscrabble Midwest into the commercial wilderness of modern America.","brand":"The New York Review of Books, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515879612759,"sku":"9781590177150","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/during-the-reign-of-the-queen-of-9781590177150","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}