Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Good start but looses itself midway through

I listened to this book on tape and although I enjoyed the beginning and was looking forward to a good story I found myself dissappointed and a bit disinterested by the end. There is no question that Lyden lived overcame a traumatic childhood and it is interesting to read about it. But her conclusions seemed, well, inconclusive. In the end she waxes poetic but doesn't really make any clear point. She accepts her mother and misses her mothers manias and she repeats how content she is with her own life. It seemed more like she really didn't know how to synthesize her story and that she was trying to convince herself and the readers that she was "at peace" then it actually seemed true. At the end of the book Lyden still didn't seem to have the solid foundation which, sadly, her childhood failed to provide.