August 2021 - The Farm

We discussed The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch at our July 26th meeting. Everyone who attended loved the book and felt that it continues to be inspirational even almost 15 years after his death.


Our next book group meeting will be on Monday, August 30 at 3pm in the library's small meeting room. Our book sale will be going on in our large meeting room so that room is unavailable. We are reading The Farm by Joanne Ramos. Copies are available for pickup at the library desk. Discussion sheets can also be picked up or are available online

Book Summary:
Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private 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. 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, consumed with worry for her own 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 delivery. Heartbreaking, gripping, provocative, The Farm pushes our thinking on motherhood, money, and merit to the extremes, and raises crucial questions about the trade-offs women will make to fortify their futures and the futures of those they love.

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