Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A small gem

Andrew Holleran has produced in this slim volume one of the significant pieces of art about the impact of AIDS on a generation; simultaneously he has given us a thoughtful meditation on ageing, family and duty.Grief deals with the return to Washington of a 50-something academic whose friends were mostly lost in the worst days of the epidemic and who has been caring for his dying mother in Florida over the past decade. Nothing much happens: he talks with his host (introduced to him through a mutual friend; he wanders Washington; he thinks about his moter; he reads the letters of the grieving Mary Todd Lincoln. But through this comes a powerful sense of what it is to live with grief and the different choices people make in order to survive.This is not a feel good novel. It doesn't offer 'closure'. Instead, it considers deeply, and in beautiful prose, an authentic emotional landscape.