Title: Cherry
Subtitle: a novel
Description: 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: Drug addicts, Bank robberies, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Identity (Psychology), Veterans, Fiction, Veterans, fiction, Iraq war, 2003-2011, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Fiction, crime, Fiction, psychological, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2018-09-02, New York Times bestseller, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Opioid abuse, Codependents, Man-woman relationships, Literary, Crime, War & Military