Jane Reyes is a Filipino domestic worker and single mother living in a dormitory in New York, with her infant daughter Amalia. She has stated that she did not consider the novel a dystopia but rather a story set 'where we are today, but pushed forward just a few inches'. The book has been widely compared to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. I wanted to question the society we’ve collectively chosen'. Ramos said that she chose to switch narrators throughout the novel because 'otherwise it was one person’s perspective and one view. The characters in the book were partly inspired by the many Filipina domestic workers she met who shared her ethnic background but lacked the opportunities she herself had. The idea for the novel struck Ramos when she came across a magazine advert for surrogacy services in India. The novel switches between four perspectives of the women involved, including Jane Reyes, Evelyn 'Ate' Arroyo, Reagan McCarthy, and Mae Yu.

It is set in a fictional facility named Golden Oaks, also called 'The Farm', where women serve as surrogates for wealthy clients. The debut novel was published on by Random House. The Farm is a 2019 novel by Filipino-American writer Joanne Ramos.

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