April 11, 2019

April 11, 2019
Today's Featured Title and Contest

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Friday, April 12th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE FARM by Joanne Ramos, which releases on May 7th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest:
THE FARM by Joanne Ramos

Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules.

“[Joanne] Ramos’s debut novel couldn’t be more relevant or timely.” —O: The Oprah Magazine (25 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2019)

Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages --- and all of it for free. In fact, you’re paid big money to stay here --- more than you’ve ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone else.

Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines, is in desperate search of a better future when she commits to being a “Host” at Golden Oaks --- or the Farm, as residents call it. But now pregnant, fragile and consumed with worry for her family, Jane is determined to reconnect with her life outside. Yet she cannot leave the Farm, or she will lose the life-changing fee she’ll receive on the delivery of her child.

Gripping, provocative and heartbreaking, THE FARM pushes to the extremes our thinking on motherhood, money and merit, and raises crucial questions about the trade-offs women will make to fortify their futures and the futures of those they love.

- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to connect with Joanne Ramos on Instagram.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET
on Friday, April 12th.

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