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An absorbing page turner, steeped in the richness of Jamaican culture, first-time author Lloyd Francis' Rum to Roots kept me engrossed from start to finish. I could visualize the fields of cane, the rum distillery, the alcohol fumes, the domestic violence and the ganja-smoking young men. I could feel the emotional swings, the ups and downs, the hope and despair, the love and the hate - all this captured and packaged in Jamaican patois when emotions run high. The novel follows the life of Linton
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