A review by mmc6661
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman

4.0

An absolutely delightful read ! Malka a Russian Jew whose family flees to America ( her mother thought they were going to Africa ) to live in the dream of honey and roads paved with gold, only to discover a world filled with immigrants struggling just to make a living. Malka soon gets ran over by an ice cream truck and there starts her lifelong journey with ice cream. Abandoned by her family and taken in by the ice cream truck family she is renamed Lillian and baptised into the Catholic church. Lillian grows up to be a very determined and a bit of a character. I found her story heartbreaking and her demeanor sometimes hilarious. I loved the escapades of Lillian and her ice cream dream.