Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin
Nico Walker is originally from Cleveland. He served as a medic on more than 250 missions in Iraq. Currently he has two more years to serve of an eleven-year sentence for bank robbery. Cherry is his debut novel.
A remarkable accomplishment... [Cherry] will shake your
soul. -- Atticus Lish * Harper's Magazine *
[An] unforgettable mix of doomed and dazzling... There's
a vivid, repulsive truth in the way Walker renders his
subjects-a sort of social truth, stripped of morality, which is
rare and riveting. * New Yorker *
Cherry is a miracle of literary serendipity, a triumph... In these
propulsive pages, Walker draws us right into the mind of an
ordinary young man beset by his own and his country's demons. In
the end, his only weapon against disintegration is his own
devastating candor. * Washington Post *
The first great novel of the opioid epidemic. * New York
Magazine *
It is full of slapstick comedy, despite gut-wrenching
depictions of dope sickness, the futility of war and PTSD...
[Walker] writes dialogue so musical and realistic you'll hear it
in the air around you. * New York Times Book Review *
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