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In “The Farm”, immigrants carry the super-rich’s babies

Joanne Ramos’s impressive debut novel is set in a high-end surrogacy outfit

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The Farm. By Joanne Ramos.Random House; 336 pages; $27. Bloomsbury Publishing; £12.99.

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