Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Where's the story?

I listened to about half of the audiotape, waiting for something, anything to happen, aside from a bunch of whining and meandering dialog. While "slice of life" novels can be great, this one just had nothing to give it forward momentum. Sometimes, things were too ordinary, and other times, too hard to believe, such as that a 7-year-old would become practically suicidal because his dad's girlfriend was expecting. Halfway through this long slog, I was just so bored, I gave up. Overall, a mess of a novel. I expected more from Anne Lamott.