![]() Growing up in Hayward California he was steeped in the island tradition of reggae, Jamaican cuisine, and patois.Īfter studying engineering, Lloyd became a staff photographer for the San Jose Mercury News. As a child his trips to Jamaica in the 60's and 70's shaped who he became. Lloyd was born in Oakland in 1961, a first-generation American child to Jamaican parents. Wrestling with their past while living in a land of plenty, Linton and Daisy discover that truth is the only avenue to happiness. Happiness is as scarce as freshwater in the middle of the sea. Money flows in, but something is missing. 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 Linton’s and Daisy’s wildest dreams.īy 1986, the drink is a sensation. ![]() Becoming American citizens, they marry, and start a family. They encounter a vibrant Jamaican-American community in New York, where they meet at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. 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. ![]() Meanwhile in Kingston, Daisy, helps her mother managing an ice business and dreams of joining her elder sister in New York. ![]() 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. ![]()
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