Publisher's Synopsis
At the beginning of the 20th Century, a young girl named Malka and her family emigrate to New York City from Russia and begin a life completely different than anything they could have imagined. As fate would have it, Malka is injured in an accident and gets adopted into a Catholic Italian family that makes ice cream in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Thus begins the transformation from Malka Treynovsky to Lillian Maria Dinello to finally Lillian Dunkle, the soft ice cream queen. This book spans over seven decades and introduces readers to a determined, ruthless business woman who was ahead of her time. It also shows how the country changed along with the protagonist.
