Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Southern Fried Soul

The South is an area that intrigues me as it is so different from the urban centers and foreign ports where I grew up. Vasseur's voice speaks eloquently of the New South and the Mississippi Delta area. His world travels and non-academic life and work experiences give him an insight that couples well with his erudition. Vasseur writes each character with a parental attitude that he loves them in spite of their flaws and that he loves them because of their virtues. He can mine those virtues well. Each story is compelling in its' own way and each story tells us a little moral tale which compels the reader to look inward. I found myself rereading sevgeral stories before I went on to the next. This author writes with an optimism about daily life; that is refreshing to me. There is no air of ennui in these stories. No been there, done that, seen it all attitude that many short story writers have.