Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Looking Inward

A series of interrelated memories from a forty-something child of the '70s. Despite the book's title, Jo Ann Beard focuses more on her relationships with the women in her life (mother, sister, cousin, close friend, and, most of all, herself). The boys and men generally are in a haze of pot smoke or alcohol, and/or emotionally distant. Some of it comes across as self-absorbed and pretentious (really, a pre-birth memory?), but plenty is insightful and almost all of is interesting and well worth the reading time.