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The Farm

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The Farm

Auteur(s): Joanne Ramos
Narrateur(s): Fran de Leon
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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules.

Skimm Reads Pick • People Book of the Week • Belletrist Book Pick • “[Joanne] Ramos’s debut novel couldn’t be more relevant or timely.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Marie Claire • Town & Country

Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages—and all of it for free. In fact, you’re paid big money to stay here—more than you’ve ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone else.

Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines, is in desperate search of a better future when she commits to being a “Host” at Golden Oaks—or the Farm, as residents call it. But now pregnant, fragile, consumed with worry for her family, Jane is determined to reconnect with her life outside. Yet she cannot leave the Farm or she will lose the life-changing fee she’ll receive on the delivery of her child.

Gripping, provocative, heartbreaking, The Farm pushes to the extremes our thinking on motherhood, money, and merit and raises crucial questions about the trade-offs women will make to fortify their futures and the futures of those they love.

NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

“So many factors—gender, race, religion, class—may determine where you come down on the surrogacy debate. . . . Ramos plays with many of these notions in her debut novel, The Farm, which imagines what might happen were surrogacy taken to its high-capitalist extreme. . . . The stage is set for lively book chat.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

“A thrilling read.”—New York

“Grippingly realistic.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Brilliant.”—New York Post

“A provocative idea, and Ramos nails it . . . Crisp and believable, this smart debut links the poor and the 1 percent in a unique transaction that turns out to be mutually rewarding.”—People

“Wow, Joanne Ramos has written the page-turner about immigrants chasing what’s left of the American dream. . . . Truly unforgettable.”—Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Lake Success Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Argent

Ce que les critiques en disent

“Heady, chilling . . . [Ramos] peoples her book with figures who are appealingly engaging—or, at times, engagingly repellent.”—NPR

“What’s so striking about The Farm isn’t that it imagines a frightening dystopia. This isn’t a hundred years in the future, it’s next week. This is reality, nudged just a touch to its logical extreme. Its very plausibility is a warning shot.”—USA Today

“Richly rendered and engrossing . . . [Ramos] has the acute gaze of the immigrant girl made good. Her book is a necessary one. . . . A great read.”—The Guardian

“The Handmaid’s Tale vibes are strong, but the ‘holy sh*t this book is genius’ vibes are stronger.”—Cosmopolitan

“Unnervingly plausible . . . a suspenseful page-turner . . . Ramos inhabits [her characters] with affection, sensitivity and a keen ear for voice. Together, these women tell a story of an America in which ‘you must be strong or young if you are not rich.’”—The Economist

“A haunting read . . . Ramos has crafted a real page-turner that combines all the hottest issues of the day: inequality, race and women’s battle to reclaim their bodies from commodification by big business, with the eternal questions of how much we can sacrifice before losing ourselves completely. . . . The result is an entertaining novel that is also a serious warning.”—The Times (UK)

“[The Farm] hits home hard—a thrilling read about the myth of meritocracy, the way some people get ahead in life before they’re even born.”—New York

“A sharp takedown of the idea of American meritocracy.”—Refinery29

“The Farm is a smart, thoughtful novel about women, choices, and the immigrant experience that asks the question: How far would you go for the American dream?”—PopSugar

“A timely investigation of how much control we really have over our own situations, especially when it comes to women’s choice . . . With glimmers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and the dystopian eeriness of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Farm is equal parts entertaining and creepy.”—PureWow

“Ramos has written a firecracker of a novel, at once caustic and tender, page-turning and thought-provoking. This is a fierce indictment of the vampiric nature of modern capitalism, which never loses sight of the very human stories at its center. Highly recommended.”—Madeleine Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe
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Can this ever happen in real life. To think that women are using their body to have babies for others for a large lump sum of money. To be that poor that you have to go outside your comfort zone. The women appreciated being cared for and that their families were fed.
The story was not all that interesting to me though. It dragged on. I wouldn't listen to it again.

Thought provoking

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The story was interesting, and definitely thought provoking but did not draw me in or captivate me at all. I struggled to finish, but did end up continuing to the end because I felt like I had invested too much time to not find out the ending.

Thought Provoking, But Lacked Excitement

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I liked The Farm by Joanne Ramos. I was sucked in, and found it rather exciting. The premise was promising, and the writing was rather good. What was most intriguing and refreshing was that Ramos deals with the concepts of class hierarchy and race playing such a big part of the dystopian concept of farming out children for the wealthy. Where it got to be a little too much for me was when the speculative fiction took a back seat to drama, as I found it to be dialed up to the "soap opera" level.

Fran de Leon does a great job in her performance as people from several different racial backgrounds. It's easy to go overboard with accents but de Leon played them with dignity.

A Sprinkle of Dystopia and a Shoveling of Drama

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Is this life that will imitate art? The Farm is a thought provoking novel that brings about different emotions as well. The idea of commodifying surrogacy and who gets to profit and make the decisions is not a far fetched thought. The women who become surrogates can be seem as empowered because they are taking control of their bodies but at the same time they are being controlled.

I did enjoy the different character perspectives. I would have liked to have a bit more clarity of the timeline of events; it was difficult to know the time because the book goes from character to character.

I look forward to see what her second book will tackle.

Food for thought

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i heard about this book on CBC's Summer Reads so I figured it was worth taking a chance on. The idea behind the story has great potential to be very captivating. Unfortunately, the suspense that was built up in the novel ended in a rather flat and unsatisfying outcome.

Disappointing

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