Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: beautiful memoir of grief

This book is an elegantly written account of Joan Didion's grief and early widowhood. During this time, her only child suffers from multiple serious medical problems, all complications of infuenza.This is a serious, unsentimental look at what is means to be bereaved. I stayed up all night to finish it. I thought it was a compelling and authentic look at how we carry on with life in the face of terrible loss.