Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Making a Hash of It

In the end, the reader is left wondering why the Who, What, Where, When is not complemented with the longed-for Why. Namely, why a book that slams to a dead-end? Fuller attempts unsuccessfully (as an afterthought?) to depict herself as someone much in need of "closure" (not her term) with respect to her white-colonial childhood in war-torn Zimbabwe, and in so doing is overly obtuse in sporadic representations of empathy with ruined lives, black and white. Her stylish, semi-metaphorical descriptions of African ambiance too often seem detached from larger literary purpose, amounting on the whole to high-flown travelogue. The impulsiveness of her travels with a psychically (pre?)-damaged war veteran leads her, and us, nowhere except to disgruntling uncertainties about her, the narrator. Irresolution, multifariously manifested, unfortunately scribbles the book.