The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
by Susan Jane Gilman | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.
Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" -- doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality.
Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.
I found this book in a neighborhood Little Free Library while out releasing......looks like something I'll enjoy
In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.
Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" -- doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality.
Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.
I found this book in a neighborhood Little Free Library while out releasing......looks like something I'll enjoy
had a hard time getting into this one......reserving for an upcoming bookspiral
Journal Entry 3 by LaveggioCoffee at -- BookSpiral, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Friday, May 26, 2023
Released 10 mos ago (5/25/2023 UTC) at -- BookSpiral, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
sent off as "place" for the Person, Place, Thing book spiral.
Happy Travels
released in memory of iwillrejoice - it was on her wishlist
2023 May Royalty Release Challenge
Happy Travels
released in memory of iwillrejoice - it was on her wishlist
2023 May Royalty Release Challenge
Journal Entry 5 by Chicvolley99 at Tap & Burger Sloan's Lake - 1565 N Raleigh St. in Denver, Colorado USA on Monday, June 12, 2023
Released 10 mos ago (6/12/2023 UTC) at Tap & Burger Sloan's Lake - 1565 N Raleigh St. in Denver, Colorado USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Released outside. Please enjoy!
I look forward to a great summer read! I found this in the parking garage near the Alamo draft house off of colfax