Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Beyond Borders: Writing the Middle Space

I found Pat Mora's volume of essays after graduation from high school in 1993. The essays are reader-friendly, but demand reflection and action to come into consciousness. I had never read personal essays, especially prose that addressed issues of cultural conservation, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the naming of middle spaces and realities.The essays merit reading and careful reflection. I admit that I return to the essays often, because they read with immediacy and offer encouragement, hope. A few essays are meditative and stretch from the United States to countries such as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Pakistan among others. Pat Mora, as a U.S. writer of Mexican origin, crosses spaces and borders to commune through language, culture, and critical consciousness.