The Farm by Joanne Ramos review – the business of exploitation

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Wealthy foetuses occupy the bodies of immigrant women in a thrilling debut about the new frontier of colonialism and the savagery of the American dream

e are so successfully colonised, we don’t even call it colonisation,” said Pulitzer prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen during a keynote address at the PEN/Hemingway awards in April. “We call it The American Dream.” Joanne Ramos’s thrilling but flawed debut novel is a colonisation story set inside Golden Oaks, a baby farm in Massachusetts where wealthy foetuses occupy immigrant bodies. These grateful “hosts” are mostly black or “mild and service-oriented” Filipinos.

 

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