Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Cumbersome

Perhaps to compare this novel to its protagonist, Kate, expecting her baby and feeling very encumbered is trite, but it is apt. I felt that Phillips wanted to have her cake and eat it too -- she wanted someone young, 31, but this is a baby boomer woman, not anyone who is 31 today. Yet she attempts to give it an 'anyone/anytime' feeling (the ability for me a the reader to place the story chronologically was very difficult) which only distorts from both the 1985ish story she is telling and trying to "place" this novel in a contemporary time.Frustating, from start to finish. This is a woman who made her name writing about her generation, with all the gifts and burdens that come with it. Perhaps she was simply trying to do to much for too many.