And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is 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. 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. 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 a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to. 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. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family.
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