Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Don't bother.

Having read rave reviews of this debut novel, I was eager to dig in. What a disappointment. I'm embarrassed to say I read the entire thing simply hoping to see if something interesting would happen or if the vague imagery would actually take me somewhere. I am a huge fan of Shirley Jackson and Raymond Carver - two authors to whom Searcy is compared - and the comparison is an insult. Searcy's blurry mess of suburban snapshots is horrifying only in the sense of how unsatisfying and pointless it is.