Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: An optimistic Sherwood Anderson.

This book reminds me of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio. However, unlike the latter, it is more optimistic. Instead of negative themes, such as Sherwood Anderson's chapter "Hands," it relishes in the small town life of nice people. The author puts his heart into this work and you get a sense that he's proud of where he's from and thinks that others are being deprived by not telling the story of his wonderful upbringing. If you're from a town with happy memories, you can relate to this book. There's a metaphysical aspect of a Lost Eden in the sense of a reminiscence that haunts the mundane prose.