This shrewd and lively novel tells us about those chasms between public success and private truths that make up so much of American life. Way.” - Kevin Baker, New York Times bestselling author This is the immigrant story updated, with aīrazenly reimagined American anti-hero, and delicious all along the “The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street is a wonderful read, by turns Listeners will beĮngaged by Gilman’s compelling story and presentation. As a poor immigrantīecomes the ice cream queen, the story provides historical insights on theĭevelopment and franchising of the ice cream industry. Ones are sprinkled throughout her impressive narration. Pathetic, sarcastic, ambitious, and bold. Her cadence andĮxpressiveness are entertaining as she portrays the complex Dunkle, who is Queen Lillian Dunkle is flawlessly delivered by the author. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building will be at stake. 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.
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