![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. Taken in by a tough-loving 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, than 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. MediaType eBook shortDescription 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. ![]() PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 publishDateText otherFormatIdentifiers Though she lives in Geneva, Switzerland, she remains, eternally, a child of New York. Her fiction and essays have received several literary awards. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, and has written commentary for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Ms. Susan Jane Gilman is the author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dressand Kiss My Tiara. ![]()
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