A Fictional But Not-Impossible Future

The Farm By Joanne Ramos is this author’s debut novel. Another winner found while listening to a WNYC interview! The author taps into her Filipino roots to tell this tale of immigrant women struggling to survive, trying to make a better life for themselves, their children and extended families and the sacrifices these mothers make by taking care of other wealthy people’s children. The author does not hide the idea that women are being used as vessels, commodities to accommodate the rich. The needs of the extremely wealthy’s are catered to, literally, as a business opportunity and industry, while the women who serve them are invisible. Although this story is fiction, it could be true now or in our near future, which is unsettling.