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FILIPINO American novelist Joanne Ramos read an article in the Wall Street Journal about surrogate mothers in India, and this became the germ for her provocative novel, The Farm. A novel that is a page-turner, it's also perfect for book-club discussion and so Netflix-ready. Ramos tells a compelling and entertaining story about Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines, whose cousin Ate, an undocumented alien, convinces her to apply to The Farm. This place sounds like a paradise in upstate New York. Golden Oaks is a posh "gestational retreat" that pays a lot of money to its surrogates, who are either...
