Engaging the World on Health Equity Through ReadingMain MenuIntroductionWhy these books?Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in AppalachiaMichele MorroneAmerican Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and PoliticsMartin HalliwellAmerica’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the MarginsMarcia C. InhornBedlam: An Intimate Journey into America's Mental Health CrisisKenneth Paul RosenbergBlack Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic PlagueDavid K RandallChanging Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about ItPaul R. Epstein (Author), Dan Ferber (Author), Jeffrey Sachs (Foreword)CherryNico WalkerDelugeLelia ChattiDying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and HealthKeith WailooA Family History of Illness: Memory as MedicineBrett L. WalkerThe Family Roe: An American StoryJoshua PragerFit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939Natalia MolinaHaiti: After the EarthquakePaul FarmerHow the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in AmericaPriya Fielding-Singh, PhDMad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally IllRobert WhitakerNot Invisible: A Collection of Poems about Chronic IllnessTiffany MoharPushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol CigaretteKeith WailooSince the House is BurningTale of Two PlanetsJohn Freeman (editor)Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our NationLinda VillarosaUnwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made WorldElinor CleghornWhat Happens Is NeitherAngela Narciso TorresWhat the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American CityMona Hanna-AttishaWhich Country Has the World's Best Health Care?Ezekiel J. EmanuelAbout the curatorAcknowledgementsVesper North9c258319e12f98ebd7884dfac94793204ec38858Chapman University
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keywords: veteran health & healthcare, addiction, opiode epidemic, incarceration, mental health, Iraq/Afghanistan War
Cherry "touches on some of the darkest chapters of recent American history: the opioid epidemic, the lingering trauma of war for a generation of young Americans caught up in the endless conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the social and psychological costs of addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder [...] Cherry fits into a growing body of literature by American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who have turned to fiction to explore the trauma of war and its aftermath" (The New York Times).
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. Nico Walker recounts his struggle while incarcerated, publishing his story before his release in 2020.
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and directed by the Russo Brothers.