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Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 10 days ago
Views - 1
Wishes - 1
Ships From - North Carolina
Est. Publication Date - May 2016
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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 hers
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel
ISBN: 1455595055
Publisher Description
Now in paperback, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's IndieNext Pick novel about an immigrant girl's transformation into an indomitable businesswoman in early 20th century New York. As a child in 1...
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