Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: very bleak.........

Whle the crafting of this collection of short stories of life in Montana is skillfully done, the stories are very bleak. Mary Clearman Blew writes with an austerity that defies description. She is a skilled artist, painting a clear but bleak picture of life in the boondocks of Montana. The parallels of the lives of various women with the life of a female coyote was interesting, but the short story Sister Coyote was a depressing, hopeless tale that literally removes any breath of hope. While the stories were artfully rendered, this book was just to depressing for me.