pbNamed one of the best books of 2017 by iThe Los Angeles Times, i iThe Boston Globei, PopSugar, iFinancial Timesi, iChicago Review of Booksi, iHuffington Posti, iSan Francisco Chronicle, Thrillisti, iBook Riot, National Posti Canada, iKirkus iand iPublishers WeeklyibbrbbrFrom the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy comes Jeff VanderMeer's iBornei, a story about two humans and two creatures. b piAm I a person Borne asked me.ibriYes, you are a person, I told him. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.i pIn iBornei, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. 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. 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. pOne day, Rachel finds Borne during a scaven