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

I quite enjoyed this novel. The structure of each chapter embodying a different incarnation of Eden's experiences in Paris is quite innovative and enriching. Each step of the way improves her sense of language and self, and Youngblood reflects this in the language of Eden as the narrator. There are several passages where I felt more depth would have helped the reader, but overall I didn't feel the novel lacked. Like Michele Zackheim's "Violette's Embrace", this is a wonderful novel about walking in an author's shadow and discovering one's own creative self.