Nico Walker is originally from Cleveland. Cherry is his debut novel.
"The first great novel of the opioid epidemic."
--Vulture
"A buzzsaw of a novel. . . . Bracingly original." --The Wall
Street Journal
"Cherry is a profane, raw, and harrowingly timely account
of the effects of war and the perils of addiction."
--Entertainment Weekly
"A raw coming-of-age story in reverse. . . . Cherry touches on some
of the darkest chapters of recent American history." --The New
York Times
"Aptly compared to Jesus' Son and Reservoir Dogs,
[Cherry] is a devastating example of art imitating life."
--Esquire "[Walker's] language, relentlessly profane but
never angry, simmers at the level of morose disappointment,
something like Holden Caulfield Goes to War. . . . His prose echoes
Ernest Hemingway's cadences to powerful effect. . . . Cherry
is written without an ounce of self-pity by an author allergic to
the meretricious poetry of despair. 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." --The
Washington Post "The rare work of literary fiction by a young
American that carries with it nothing of the scent of an MFA
program. . . . The voice Walker has fashioned has a lot in common
with the one Denis Johnson conjured for his masterpiece Jesus'
Son. . . . A novel of searing beauty." --Vulture "A singular
portrait of the opioid epidemic. . . . [Walker] writes dialogue so
musical and realistic you'll hear it in the air around you."
--The New York Times Book Review "[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 when it comes to the
subjects of opioid addiction, intimate everyday cruelty, and
endless, meaningless war." --The New Yorker "Walker tells
the story in a biting staccato, by turns shrewd, heartfelt, and
repellent. . . . Cherry's descriptions of Army life are as
acerbic and unsparing--and often darkly hilarious--as the boot-camp
scenes from Full Metal Jacket." --Mother Jones
"Heavily indebted to the profane blood, guts, bullets, and
opiate-strewn absurdities dreamed up by Thomas McGuane, Larry
Brown, and Barry Hannah, Cherry tells a story that feels
infinitely more real, and undeniably tougher than the rest."
--The A.V. Club "Unsparingly raw and utterly gripping. This
is an astonishingly good novel, written by someone who clearly has
a gift for storytelling. Walker's characters, even minor players
and walk-ons, are beautifully drawn. His dialogue rings achingly
true. . . . A masterpiece." --Booklist (starred review)
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