Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Mediocre at best

Being a mexican-american myself, I bought this book hoping this would be another gem of a book lending insight into the mexican-american experience, or any experiece for that matter. But this thin little book is a disappointment. The short stories are wrought with a bitterness and hostility towards anyone who crosses the narrator's path. Serros' tries too hard to convey her narrators as victims -- I even know that you don't have to be a chicana to have family members discourage you early on from becoming what you want to be when you grow up, which seems to be a central theme in her book -- that people in her youth kept holding her back. This theme gets really old really quickly. Serros should have stuck to her more humorous side than to resort to the whining and self-pity.