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Farming out the future

As immigrants bear babies of billionaires, several hierarchies come under the scanner of this novel.

In Joanne Ramos' The Farm, wealthy patrons outsource pregnancies to "hosts" for a price at a luxury surrogacy facility in Massachusetts. The narrative- reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale (though less sinister)-follows Filipina-American immigrant

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