Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: white southern boys relates

I came to this novel when I was out of reading material and found a gem that will stay with me forever. Myself born a few years prior to the main character in the South and also went to a Northern college. The difference being I was white but the Northern college was my first experience of living with Negros and my background in a small rural Tennessee town made me realize what the blacks faced. I read a write-up from TIME when this was first published and they said it was overwritten, but to the contrary, I felt that the completeness of the story only added to its strength.