Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Fiction or Real Life?

I found this novel to smack heavily of realism and it kept me coming back for more. I hardly put it down while I was reading it. Anna Quindlen's novel of this abused woman and her struggles to start a new life seemed all too real to me and hit all too close to home with her vivid descriptions of the suffering Fran Benedetto endured at the hands of her policeman husband. I've seen too many of my friends go through some of these same situations not to recognize how closely art imitates life in this novel. Ms. Quindlen has brought her characters to life for me with her colorful descriptions of their struggles to over come all the adversities they've faced through their life. I never felt as though her characters couldn't have been real people that I might come in contact with everyday. I find myself wanted to read more of her work to see if I would enjoy them half as much as I enjoyed reading "Black and Blue". I would highly recommend this novel to anyone.