The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street Audiobook by Susan Jane Gilman

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/278/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street Subtitle: A Novel Author: Susan Jane Gilman Narrator: Susan Jane Gilman Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 06-10-14 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 199 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: 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 70 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. Critic Reviews: "[A] standout travel memoir...Gilman's descriptions of their trials and tribulations crackle with wit." ( Booklist) "This shrewd and lively novel tells us about those chasms between public success and private truths that make up so much of American life. The energetic narrator, the ice cream queen, is a confidence-woman, and her darkly comic story about life in the big city and in the media spotlight will give readers chills." ( Charles Baxter, author of The Soul Thief)