Jeff VanderMeer BORNE Tour Schedule
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I’m thrilled to post my book tour schedule for Borne, my new novel out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux in hardcover on April 25. Borne has received glowing, starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, with National Book Award Winner Colson Whitehead providing this great blurb: “Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it’s a thorough marvel.” Paramount and Scott Rudin Productions have acquired the film rights to Borne and the novel made many most-anticipated lists, including from the New York Times.
You can preorder from your favorite book seller.
“Am I a person?” Borne asked me. “Yes, you are a person,” I told him. “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 of the future. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals in homegrown psychoactive biotech. One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump—plant or animal?—but exudes a strange charisma. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet, against her instincts, Rachel keeps Borne. She cannot help herself. 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. For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. She begins to feel a protectiveness she can ill afford. But as Borne grows, he begins to threaten the balance of power in the city and to put her security at risk. For new enemies are creeping in. Soon, Rachel’s world will change forever.
Unless otherwise noted, these events will consist of a reading, discussion, and Q&A, followed by a book signing. Please also note some pre-tour events for the Southern Reach trilogy, including Houston, Cornell, Sigma Tau Delta conference in Louisville (w/ guests like Marlon James), and DePaul for Earth Day. I will also introduce Ottessa Moshfegh for an HWS event in Geneva, NY.
I hope to see you on the road! I should also note that my wife, the award-wining editor Ann VanderMeer, will be along for the entire tour and will be happy to say hi as well. You can check out the full schedule below and over at VanderMeer Creative (links below to facebook event pages)
– Best, Jeff
BORNE BOOK TOUR
DEKALB, ILLINOIS: NIU Library / DeKalb Public Library
April 24 @ 7:30 pm, DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak Street
(Sponsored by NIU STEM Outreach, with thanks to DeKalb Public Library and Anderson’s Bookshop)
CHICAGO: Volumes Book Cafe
April 26 @ 7:00 pm, Volumes Book Café, venue TBA
MINNEAPOLIS: Grace Trinity Memorial Church (with Benjamin Percy)
April 27 @ 7:00 pm, Grace-Trinity Church, 1430 West 28th Street
Presented by Magers & Quinn Booksellers
BOSTON: Brookline Booksmith
May 1 @ 7:00 pm, 279 Harvard Street
NEW YORK CITY: PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL, Dystopias Panel (ticketed event)
May 5 @ 8:00 pm, Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street
(with Clare Vaye Watkins and Emily St. John Mandel)
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Politics & Prose Bookstore
May 7 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW
SEATTLE: University Bookstore
May 10 @ 7:00 pm, 4326 University Way NE
PORTLAND, OR: Powell’s City of Books
May 11 @ 7:30 pm, 1005 West Burnside Street
POINT REYES STATION, CA: Point Reyes Books (***BONUS = Lighthouse)
May 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Point Reyes Books, 11315 Highway 1
SAN FRANCISCO: Green Apple Books on the Park (with SF in SF sponsorship)
May 16 @ 7:30 pm, 1231 9th Ave
SANTA CRUZ: Bookshop Santa Cruz (with Karen Joy Fowler)
May 17 @ 7:00 pm, ADDRESS
LOS ANGELES: The Last Bookstore
May 18 @ 7:00 pm, 453 South Spring Street
HOUSTON: Brazos Bookstore
May 22 @ 7:00 pm, 2421 Bissonnet St
TALLAHASSEE: Midtown Reader
May 24 @ 5:30 pm, 1123 Thomasville Road
ORLANDO: Functionally Literate
May 27 @ 7:15 pm, venue TBD, sponsored by Burrow Press & Bookmark It
TAMPA: Oxford Exchange
May 28 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm, 420 W Kennedy Blvd
THOMASVILLE, GA: The Bookshelf
June 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 126 South Broad Street
Later in 2017: Hub City Bookshop, World SF Convention in Helsinki, Decatur Book Festival, and others TBD.
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