Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone.
Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" - doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. Taken in by an Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness.
Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan when Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. "A rich literary feast of 31 flavors (and twice that many colors, scents and sounds), Ice Cream Queen is a familiar schmatta-to-silk brocade story of immigrant New York.an upside-down, funhouse treat. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
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