num_pages: 450
description: In 1937 near Portland Cottage in southern Jamaica on a huge sugar estate Linton McMann the illegitimate son of the owner of the plantation works making rum. Meanwhile in Kingston Daisy helps her mother managing an ice business and dreams of joining her elder sister in New York.Seeking opportunity Linton leaves the deep Jamaican countryside for New York and the collapse of the ice business and family crises force Daisy to leave Kingston seeking a new start in the United States. They encounter a vibrant Jamaican-American community in New York where they meet at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. Becoming American citizens they marry and start a family. Ambition drives them to start a business and Linton capitalizes on a skill he learned as a young man in Jamaica making a drink known in Jamaica as Roots. It proves wildly popular and the company Family Roots prospers beyond Lintons and Daisys wildest dreams.By 1986 the drink is a sensation. Money flows in but something is missing. Happiness is as scarce as freshwater in the middle of the sea. Wrestling with their past while living in a land of plenty Linton and Daisy discover that truth is the only avenue to happiness.
language: English
title: From Rum to Roots
publisher: Marway Publishing