palmist

On her release, Johnson moved to New York, just as the palmist predicted, landing a job as a seamstress in Greenwich Village but spending free time up in Harlem, where she experienced racism firsthand.

For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.

For a long time, this would have seemed as foolish as giving your money to a palmist.

“While she was extricating herself, Mrs. Brown said things to the palmist and his dog which caused Mahartan Newman to follow her about the store upbraiding her,” she said.

Ads for Coca-Cola and Tops Snuff, the famed palmist sign itself.