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By: Joanne Ramos

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  • CategoryFiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages327
  • Published2019
  • File size1.5 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9781984853752

Key ideas from the book

  • The novel considers how financial need can shape decisions about pregnancy and surrogacy.
  • Jane’s situation connects family responsibility with the desire for a more secure future.
  • Golden Oaks’s rules highlight the tension between care, control, and personal freedom.
  • The story raises questions about motherhood, money, class, and who benefits from reproductive labor.
  • Readers interested in contemporary fiction about social pressures and reproductive ethics may find it compelling.

About The Farm by Joanne Ramos

At Golden Oaks, a luxury retreat in New York’s Hudson Valley, women are paid to carry pregnancies for others. The arrangement comes with strict conditions: Hosts cannot leave the grounds for nine months, their movements are monitored, and they are separated from their former lives.

Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines, joins the program hoping to secure a better future for her family. As her worries grow, she faces the cost of trying to reconnect with life outside the Farm while risking the fee she is counting on. Joanne Ramos’s novel examines surrogacy, motherhood, money, class, and the difficult trade-offs people may make for those they love.

About Joanne Ramos

Joanne Ramos is a Filipino American novelist who was born in the Philippines and grew up in Wisconsin. A graduate of Princeton University, she worked in finance before turning to fiction. Her debut novel, *The Farm* (2019), follows women who become surrogate mothers at a luxurious facility, exploring the intersections of reproduction, labor, class, and immigration. Ramos’s work is notable for bringing intimate human stories to bear on larger questions of power and inequality.

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