For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. Borne, learning to speak, learning about the world, is fun to be with, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. Yet, against her instincts-and definitely against Wick's wishes-Rachel keeps Borne. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth, now lost to rising seas. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump-plant or animal?-but exudes a strange charisma. One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company-a biotech firm now derelict-and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too." In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict.
Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, PopSugar, Financial Times, Chicago Review of Books, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Thrillist, Book Riot, National Post (Canada), Kirkus and Publishers Weeklyįrom the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy comes Jeff VanderMeer's Borne, a story about two humans and two creatures. About the Book First published in hardcover by MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017.
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