5/24/2023 0 Comments Borne jeffShe cannot remember how they died or how she came to the city. Rachel grew up on an island with her parents, and then traveled with them seeking safety as the apocalypse ravaged the world. Wick has a professional rival named called the Magician who also used to work for the Company the Magician has plans to take control of the city herself. The Company is now just a shell of a building in the city with a few survivors camped out inside. Wick used to work for the Company, a sinister organization that once governed the city and that is responsible for creating Mord, along with other biologically engineered creatures the characters call “biotech” (120). Wick is a drug dealer, selling memory beetles to his clients which, when ingested, allow for the erasure of painful memories. Rachel takes Borne to her home, an abandoned hotel called the Balcony Cliffs, where she lives with her friend and lover, Wick. At first glance, Borne appears to be a cross between a vase and a sea anemone, and he is tangled in Mord's fur. In an unnamed post-apocalyptic city menaced by a giant flying bear named Mord, the narrator Rachel discovers a strange object that she comes to call Borne. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Vandermeer, Jeff.
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