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This is a review of HANGOVERS by Jennifer Pashley. This is very shocking story that is far beyond my preconceived idea of hangovers. I choose it for that reason.

This is a story about a person who have a horrible hangover. She can’t live a daily life normally as she has suffered from hangovers for long years, and then she is in hospital. However, this story doesn’t only describe hangovers. It suggests dark social problems behind hangovers. I feel a void and fear, and a sick from these scenes; you can hear only the sounds of smoking cigarettes on the phone, the dog fallen down the stairs lies under the sheets on the bed, and you cry and vomit and the face is ugly with blood (Pasheley, 2018).

I like this amazing work because it’s so creative

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