You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Bray Grant, actress actress filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode is our special pride reading episode,

but first...

What are you reading, Briy?

I just finished a book that I really enjoyed.

It is called The Farm by Joanne Ramos.

Have you heard of this book?

No.

Oh, I feel like I heard about it on several different podcasts, so I decided to order it, I

pre-ordered it.

I feel like I was one of the first people to get it from my library

because it came out in May and I got it very quickly. So that's a good feeling.

It is I would say near future sci-fi but yeah near it's definitely sci-fi but it's like doesn't feel that far away it's about a

bunch of surrogates who are paid to live in this place that feels like a spa, like a fancy awesome spa and they carry

other people's babies.

And that's not that crazy.

I mean people hire targets all the time.

But the place they are that they're living is

spot like but it is also very controlling as you would imagine and they don't

necessarily know whose baby they're carrying but they know they get paid

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