During the Reign of the Queen of Persia

"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 1950's. "From the Paperback edition.