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Introduction Hal akim hasan is a book vendor and street intellectual at the busy intersection of Eighth Street, Greenwich Avenue, and the Avenue of the Americas-aka Sixth Avenue. He is a sturdy and stocky five-foot-seven African American forty-two years old. In the winter, he wears Timberland boots, jeans,a hooded sweatshirt, a down vest, and a Banana Republic baseball cap One Thursday in February 1996, an African-American man in his mid- thirties came up to Hakims table and asked for a copy of Alice Walker's book The Same River Twice, about her experiences in turning her novel The Color Purple into a movie. Hakim was all sold out, but said he would get some more in stock soon When you get some, you let me know, "said the man, who worked de- livering groceries Because, you see, not only that, "said the man, "I've got a friend that loves to read Male or female?"asked Hakim Female. She's like this: when she gets a book in her hand, in another hour it's finished. In other words-like, with me, I'll read maybe.. five chapters, then I'll put it down 'cause I gotta do something then maybe I'll come back to it. But with her, she gets into it and goes through the whole book like that. Boom. And she puts it on the shelf and it's just like brand new.Like, when it,'s her birthday or what-have-you, I buy her books, because that's one of the things that she likes. I bought the book Waiting to Exhale in
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