Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Quiet novel of painful migration

Hardly any of the book is set in Laos and the previous review is totally out of line. The narrator is clearly of Chinese descent and swam to Thailand. About half of the book takes place in a refugee camp in Thailand, and most of the other half takes place in America. The communist disruption of his schooling prevented him from school study of Laotian.The book is very insightful and often funny about the affronts a sensitive young man faced in a succession of foreign settings, and the rejection by Laotian Americans obviously makes another one. I think the book is honest, the previous reviewer not.