Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Memoir at its searing best

Paul Raeburn is a brave and compassionate writer. In this narrative about his children's mental illness and the failure of his marriage, he has confessed his own failings and weaknesses about as much as I think is humanly possible. He has been faulted by other reviewers for the very failings that he has had the insight to recognize and report in himself, and surely he must have known that his book would garner such judgmental responses. He wrote it anyway, and I'm grateful to have been able to read it.Acquainted With the Night is powerful, memorable, and likely to be helpful for families who are dealing with mental illness. It is also a riveting story.