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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street : A Novel by Susan Jane Gilman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street : A Novel about?
A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. 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 craft
Who reads The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Susan Jane Gilman
- Publisher
- New York: Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781455564118
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (5,648 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14