Cherry / Nico Walker.
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TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]Edition: 1st edDescription: 317 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780525520139Subject(s): Veterans -- Fiction | Drug addicts -- Fiction | Bank robberies -- Fiction | Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction | Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Juvenile fiction | Veterans -- Fiction | Drug addicts -- Fiction | Bank robberies -- Fiction | Identity -- Fiction | Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Fiction | FICTION / Literary | FICTION / Crime | FICTION / War & MilitaryGenre/Form: Romance fiction. | Black humor (Literature) Additional physical formats: Online version:: CherryDDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3623.A359552 | C54 2018Other classification: FIC019000 | FIC050000 | FIC032000 Summary: "Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest. Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at--robbing banks"--Provided by publisher.
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | FIC/WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500060318 |
"This is a Borzoi Book . . ."--T.p. verso.
Library Journal Starred, August 2018
Booklist starred, August 2018
Publisher's Weekly, June 2018
Kirkus Starred, June 2018
"Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest. Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at--robbing banks"--Provided by publisher.
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