Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Leyung Ryan has universal appeal

Publisher's Weekly's snide review notwithstanding, this is a lovely first novel. Rather than trying to be a fresh 'Asian' voice, the LeYung Ryan seemed to be using an Asian-american protagonist to deal with universal themes: The difficulties of being pulled in two cultural directions, the wounds of childhood, the awkward role reversal that takes place when a child is called on to care for a parent, the need to take a hard look at the past to gain freedom from its baggage. These themes and her treatment of them is neither cloying nor coy.This author shows a lot of promise and I'm looking forward to her next novel.