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  • Cherry

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Nico Walker
  • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
  • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Written by: Nico Walker
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
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Publisher's Summary

National Best Seller

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and directed by the Russo Brothers. 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.

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.

A PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New YorkerEntertainment WeeklyVulture Vogue Lit Hub

©2018 Nico Walker (P)2018 Random House Audio
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What the critics say

“Nico Walker’s Cherry is a wrenching, clear-eyed stare-down into the abyss of war, addiction and crime, a dark tumble into scumbaggery, but it’s also deeply humane and truly funny. That is one of the reasons I love it so much: it makes you laugh and ache at the same time, in the manner of the great Denis Johnson.” (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will)

“Heartbreaking, unadorned, radically absent of pretense, Cherry is the debut novel America needs now, a letter from the frontlines of opioid addiction and, almost subliminally, a war story.” (Lea Carpenter, author of Eleven Days and Red, White, Blue)

“Harrowing, heartbreaking, and sadly funny. Cherry is a terrific book, a cool book, and Walker’s voice is keen and vigilant and uniquely his own.” (Joe Ide, author of IQ and Righteous)

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had much higher hopes

This was a pointless book. the ending bothered me the most. I just listened and listened waiting for something to happen, but nothing happens.
The narrator was pretty good though.

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