Cherry A Novel Nico Walker by Nico Walker 9780525520139, 0525520139 instant download after payment.

A young medic returns from deployment in Iraq to two things: the woman he loves, and the opioid crisis sweeping across the Midwest. In this “miracle of literary serendipity” (The Washington Post), after finding himself deep in the thrall of heroin addiction, the soldier arrives at what seems like the only logical solution: robbing banks. 

"... incendiary... can be read as auto fictional in so much as its plot bears a close resemblance to Walker’s own life, but its taut prose and carefully balanced structure attest to a novelistic artifice..."  -  Lucian Robinson, TImes Literary Supplement

From its very first pages, Nico Walker's poignant, unflinching fiction debut hooks you in with its vivid portrayal of two people adrift in the world but anchored to each other. The woman who captures our narrator's heart is the unforgettable Emily. But when he loses her, he makes an indelible statement of his own: he joins the Army.

The outcome will not be good for either of them.

"Cherry is a miracle of literary serendipity, a triumph born of gore and suffering that reads as if it’s been scratched out with a dirty needle across the tender skin of a man’s forearm... which tries to answer the question, 'How do you get to be a scumbag?' But in the process of laying out the road to perdition, Walker demonstrates the depths of his humanity and challenges us to bridge the distance that we imagine separates us us from the damned."  -  Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Written by a singularly talented, wildly imaginative debut novelist, Cherry is a bracingly funny and unexpectedly tender work of fiction straight from the dark heart of America.