Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tale of the life of a contemporary Maya man

This book is a rich description of daily life among the Maya of highland Guatemala. It describes the rituals surrounding birth and marriage and the struggles with poverty and oppression that most persons face today in the pueblos. As a biography, it would read extremely well. However, as a novel, it lacks the development of character and plot that usually drive fiction. Nonetheless, it is the best (only?) of its genre.