Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pretentious!

Most of the times, one would not be doing justice to a book by trying to describe it in one word. Nevertheless, in this case I am tempted to say that this book can be reasonably described by one word- maudlin. The author has gone way overboard in trying to describe the feelings experienced by the Indian immigrants in the U.S. There is a pretentious sense of "depth" hovering in the book at all times. I cannot help but think of this as a poor attempt to emulate author Jhumpa Lahiri's excellent piece of work. I will give the author credit for nicely capturing a few genuine emotions, but the foolishly grandiose nature of the book more than compensates for the good points she scores.