Cherry
a novel
About this book
The unnamed narrator, a young man from Cleveland, drops out of college and enlists in the United States Army as a medic during the Iraq War. Suffering from PTSD, the narrator starts self-medicating with opiates while deployed and continues once back home. His opioid use quickly becomes a devastating addiction that hurts his attempts at furthering his education and his personal relationships. After entering into a relationship with a woman who enables his opioid abuse, the narrator begins to run out of money, and decides to start robbing banks to pay for his habit.
Subjects
- bank robberies
- codependents
- crime
- drug addicts
- fiction
- fiction, crime
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, romance, contemporary
- identity (psychology)
- iraq war, 2003-2011
- iraq war, 2003-2011, fiction
- literary
- man-woman relationships
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2018-09-02
- opioid abuse
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- veterans
- veterans, fiction
- war & military