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The Farm

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 A 2019 novel by Filipino-American author Joanne Ramos.Jane Reyes is a struggling Filipina nurse-cum-caregiver recently arrived in the States. It's hard enough that the jobs she's had so far are lowish in pay, but she's also saddled with an almost-newborn daughter, Amalia, a product of wedlock with a cavalier man who left them soon afterward. Moving to New York to find better opportunities, she rooms with her older cousin Evelyn Arroyo, often just referred to as "Ate" (Tagalog for "big sister"), who helps to care for Amalia and to find Jane a job. Eventually one very promising yet intriguing offer surfaces: how would she like to get pregnant with the babies of paying clients? No—not like that—but rather, she'll be implanted with the fertilised eggs of rich clients who can't themselves risk birthing them (for age, medical conditions, lack of time or other reasons), and she'll be hired to bring those people's fetuses to term, for a tidy salary and the promise of a huge bonus upon safe delivery. The employer, Golden Oaks Farm, is a surrogate-pregnancy farm in upstate New York. It seems too good to be true—is it?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It's in essence a small-scale, very near-future Dystopia, described in some circles as the millennial answer to The Handmaid's Tale.
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 Affably Evil: How the constantly-smiling Mae comes across to the Hosts sometimes, in particular to Reagan and Jane.
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 Big Brother Is Watching: The Farm is crawling with CCTV cameras, and the Genre Savvy Lisa often makes beelines for camera blind spots. The Farm's Coordinators can also track the movements of their Hosts via their WellBands, fitness monitors the Hosts are required to wear at all times (but are at least physically removable).
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 Bait-and-Switch: Jane was worrying all this time that Amalia was terribly sick. When she breaks out of the Farm, she locates the hospital where Amalia supposedly is, and finds that it was Ate who was hospitalised all this time. (Amalia herself is fine.)
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 Berserk Button: The whole time spent apart from her baby daughter Amalia has functioned as this for Jane.
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