Rachel is a scavenger in a city scorched and rotting. In the distance is a crumbling building that housed The Company, an organization whose objective was unknown but whose actions were devastating. Now Mord, a behemoth of a bear terrorizes everything living. 
 Rachel and Wick live alone in an abandoned and partially destroyed apartment building, just trying to survive day to day. When Rachel discovers a colorful orb and brings it home, she finds that this world may still have something worthwhile to offer. 
 "He was born, but I had borne him." 
 Told in first person by Rachel, we follow the life of Borne as it and Rachel and Wick discover what it may be and the repercussions of "raising" it. 
 Vandermeer has created another bizarre and uncanny world with a story that unfolds slowly (at times maddeningly so). While all questions aren't answered, there is a satisfying ending, which I felt the Southern Reach trilogy lacked a bit. 
 4 glowing stars