During the Reign of the Queen of Persia Author:Joan Chase "Daily life exhilarated with the richness and evocativeness of poetry." — WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD — The novel that is sweeping the country. A beautiful story of 20th-century womanhood, of Gram, the Queen of Persia herself, who rules a house where five daughters and four granddaughters spin out the tragedies and triumphs of rural life in the 195... more »0's.