Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: like most peoples lives this story spans generations .......

this book spans not only generations but ethnic boundries. Somehow southerners, jews, nuns, priests, soldiers, & everyone else flow together and become intertwinned. honestly i hate to face to the horrors of the Holocaust, buts its painfuly brought to light, and two pages later your on a beach in the south wrapped up in a totaly differt kind of pain. even the end is bittersweet. i love reading from a mans point of view, of the love for all the women in his life. beach music will be one of those books you always remeber because it touches so many nerves. i loved it.