Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Thought-provoking and a gripping read

Means' book is a provocative meditation on race in America, packaged in a compelling page-turner of a novel. The parallel worlds of white and black that have emerged from a Confederate victory in the Civil War are unveiled in an intriguingly gradual fashion, allowing the reader to ponder how this America is different from our own. The whole is packaged in a thriller whose pace never flags. I found myself thinking about how much race relations in our country actually do, in practice, resemble Means' fanatically separate but equal order. Highly recommended.