Russian immigrant Malka arrives in 1913 Manhattan, where she struggles to survive and learns trade secrets from an Italian ices peddler before setting off across America in an ice cream truck with a handsome, illiterate radical to seek their fortunes. 75,000 first printing.
Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman describes a very different kind of back-packing trip to China in which she and her college friend set out to conquer the world only to be conquered by it.
Chronicles growing up in Manhattan in the 1970s, where the author goes through many changes, being in turn a young ballet dancer in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, a rock music fan, a cub reporter, and a feminist.
