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ACROSS
1 Affectionate
sideline greeting
6 “I understand
now!”
9 Mud bath
coverings
14 Gal pal, in
Genoa
15 Searchlight used
by Gotham police
17 One changing
pitches
18 “Are you
declining?”
19 “Tell me!”
21 Response to a
tasty treat
22 Understand
23 “Va-va-__!”
24 Long Island town
26 Dog-tired
28 605, to Seneca
30 Stop, to swabs
33 Circle segment
34 “Humble” home
36 “Why would __?”
37 Dealer’s query
39 Class with
smocks
40 Punctuation in
many lists
42 Sign of disuse
43 Like yoga
teachers
45 Many a craft
beer, for short
46 Online box filler
48 Cough up the
cash
49 Enterprise rival
50 KitchenAid
appliances
52 __ colada: rum
drink
54 Old vitamin bottle
no.
57 Shiba __ :
Japanese dog
58 Scored well
under par, in golf
lingo
61 Bart Simpson’s
“Holy cow!”
64 “Love Me Like
You Do” singer
Goulding
65 Apple Store
support station
66 Preps, as
potatoes
67 Icon tappers
68 Bashful
69 Risky
rendezvous

DOWN
1 Fashionable
Kentucky Derby
array
2 “My turn to bat”
3 Handheld cleaner
4 Spotted wildcat
5 Thomas of “That
Girl”
6 Somewhat
7 Polishes off
8 Legal dept.
staffers
9 2006 cop drama
set in Florida
10 Star’s rep.
11 Hose mishap
12 Welles’ “Citizen”
13 Schedule
opening
16 Six-time Super
Bowl coach Don
20 Website with film
profiles
24 Hosp. fluid-
administration
methods hidden
in 3-, 9-, 31- and
34-Down
25 __ Alto, Calif.
26 Tampa __
Buccaneers
27 Slowly wear away
29 West Virginia
natural resource

31 Reagan Library
site
32 Allegro, largo,
lento, etc.
34 Like much Norton
software
35 Bluesy James
38 Japanese golf
great Aoki
41 Remote batteries
44 Promote
aggressively
47 Dunham and Olin

49 Buck horn
51 Anesthetizes
53 Bumbling
54 Sauce brand with
an accent on its
last letter
55 Salon colorings
56 OXY 10 target
58 Suspicious (of)
59 Art store buys
60 Wild or Old area
62 Balloon filler
63 Scrooge’s scoff

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BOOK REVIEW

I have a theory that all 
good books fall into one of two 
categories. Some are good like 
Oreos or Amanda Bynes movies: 
They probably won’t win a Pulitzer 
Prize anytime soon, but they’re 
compelling and comforting and 
impossible to put down. Others 
are good like quinoa and Oscar-
winning 
documentaries: 
They 
might be a little bit less accessible, 
but they offer something real and 
sustaining, and they change the 
way you move through the world. 
And then there are the rare, best 
books that can do both, making you 
a better person in painless, wildly 
entertaining ways. That’s Marisa 
de los Santos’s gift. Her books are 
consummate page-turners, imbued 
with all the mystery twists and 
will-they-or-won’t-they 
tension 
of a beach read, but they’re also 
beautifully crafted, deeply felt and 
consistently life-affirming. While 
de los Santos’s latest novel, “I’ll Be 
Your Blue Sky,” might not shine 
quite as bright as those that came 
before it, it still has that signature 
cocktail of wit and wonder that 
makes de los Santos great.
“I’ll Be Your Blue Sky” revisits 
the characters of de los Santos’s 
earlier novels, “Love Walked In” 
and “Belong to Me,” a few years 
down the road. Clare Hobbes is 
all grown up and about to marry 
Zach, a man who is, “So generally, 
generically marriageable it was 
almost funny.” Zach is smart, 
handsome and determined to be a 
good person despite his troubled 

past, but Clare can’t shake the 
feeling that their relationship 
isn’t quite right. On her wedding 
day, she serendipitously meets 
Edith Herron, an old woman who 
gives her the courage to follow 
her instincts and break off the 
engagement. Weeks later, Clare 
discovers that Edith has died and 
left her a New England beach 
house, a safe haven where Clare 

can pick up the pieces of her broken 
heart. But everything at Blue Sky 
House isn’t what it seems, and 
Clare and her childhood friend 
Dev set out on an adventure to 
unveil the mysteries of Edith’s past.
It would be easy to pigeonhole 
this book into the ill-defined and 
commonly maligned category of 
“women’s fiction,” where so many 
good stories go to die. Ignoring for 
the moment the larger problem 
of how our society values content 
aimed at women, “I’ll Be Your 
Blue Sky” does conform to some of 
the clichés of the genre. It’s clear, 
within the first few chapters, who 
Clare will end up with (which 
points to another cliché — the 
idea that the heroine has to end 
up with anyone at all). The female 

relationships 
are 
lovely 
and 
supportive and aspirational, but 
they struggle to pass the Bechdel 
test. The story is interested in love 
— its complexities and paradoxes 
and purities — more than anything 
else, at the expense of hard-hitting 
social criticism or intellectual 
theorizing.
But 
within 
that 
“women’s 
fiction” framework, de los Santos 
works magic. She’s a sharp observer 
of the details, “All the small, 
scattered pieces of the precious 
and luminous ordinary,” and as a 
result her world and its characters 
buzz with life and authenticity. If 
the relationship-centric subject 
matter seems cliché, it’s executed 
with such clear-eyed sensitivity 
as to be completely irresistible, 
even to a card-carrying cynic. 
De los Santos writes fiction like a 
poet, every word lovingly chosen, 
and in her capable hands even the 
simplest things sparkle.
Rather than “women’s fiction,” 
it might be more accurate to 
categorize this book as magical 
realism. The parameters of Clare 
and Edith’s world are certainly 
different than our own: No mystery 
is unsolvable, no coincidence is 
impossible and happy endings 
are guaranteed. But does it really 
matter if this fantasy world she 
creates, where the people are all 
a degree better than we know 
ourselves to be, isn’t as realistic as 
realistic fiction would like? It’s still 
delightful, clever and emotionally 
resonant in a way that continues to 
echo long after the final page. I’ve 
had enough of reality. Bring me 
more magic, please.

‘I’ll Be Your Blue Sky’ is a 
magical, resonant read

JULIA MOSS
Daily Arts Writer

“I’ll Be Your 

Blue Sky”

Marisa de los 
Santos

William Morrorw 
Books

Mar. 6, 2018

If the weeks in the wake 
of 
Parkland 
have 
taught 
us anything, it’s that high 
schoolers are a lot sharper, 
a lot cooler and a lot tougher 
than they’re given credit for. 
That’s probably not news to 
Netflix, which has quickly put 
together an impressive arsenal 
of 
original 
programming 
featuring 
young 
characters 
— from smash hits “Stranger 
Things” and “13 Reasons Why” 
to sleeper favorites “Everything 
Sucks!” and “American Vandal.”
“On My Block,” a new half-
hour 
comedy-drama 
from 
“Awkward” 
creator 
Lauren 
Iungerich, 
is 
a 
welcome 
addition to the lineup. It’s a 
sharp, moving series set in 
South Central Los Angeles 
and centered around children 
of color, who — though pop 
culture might lead you to 
believe otherwise — actually 
come of age, too.
The 
show 
follows 
four 
lifelong best friends as they 
navigate their freshman year of 
high school. There’s headstrong 
tomboy 
Monse 
(newcomer 
Sierra 
Capri), 
high-strung 
Jamal (Brett Gray, “Rise”), 
suave Ruby (Jason Genao, “The 
Get Down”) and sensitive Cesar 
(Diego Tinoco, “Teen Wolf”). 
The quartet is joined later by 

Olivia (Ronni Hawk, “Stuck 
in the Middle”), who moves in 
with Ruby’s family when her 
parents are deported.
There are story beats that feel 
familiar — drama surrounding 
the school dance, complicated 
love triangles, the pressure of 
family expectations. But there 
are also plenty of elements we 

don’t often see on television 
that keep the show original 
and fresh. Cesar struggles to 
break away from the gang life 
men in his family are forced 
into; Olivia is crushed that her 
parents won’t be around for her 
quinceañera.
It all makes for a show that’s 
tonally interesting. Storylines 
that are full of laughs, like 
Jamal’s madcap quest for buried 
treasure stolen from a roller 
rink, find themselves alongside 
much heavier arcs, like Monse’s 
search for her biological mother. 
Fortunately, for the most part, 
the show’s young stars have the 
acting chops to pull it off.
It’s largely thanks to them 
that “On My Block” manages 
that emotional whiplash quite 
well. The constant teetering 
between comedy and drama 
gives rise to some exposition-
heavy 
writing 
and 
stiff 
performances at first, but the 

show’s ambitions pay off by 
the season’s final episodes, 
when everything really falls 
into place. And the initially 
disparate 
narrative 
strands 
converge and crescendo in a 
genuinely shocking finale that 
begs for a second season.
The show’s real strength 
lies in its characters, who feel 
immediately real and lived-in, 
as if they’re old friends we’ve 
known our whole lives. It makes 
every triumph they experience 
a little sweeter and every 
disappointment 
a 
bit 
more 
heartbreaking. Monse, Jamal, 
Ruby, Cesar and Olivia aren’t 
the types of characters whose 
stories usually get told on 
television, but they’re each so 
compelling that it’s impossible 
not to fall in love with them. And 
though the show doesn’t make 
any mention of politics, there’s 
something 
about 
watching 
teenagers of color take up space 
and speak their mind that feels 
almost revolutionary.
It’s no surprise that some of 
the most affecting, enjoyable 
works on screen in the past 
year — from “Lady Bird” to 
“Dear White People” to “Love, 
Simon” — have been modern 
portraits of young adulthood 
in all of its joy and confusion 
and awakening. “On My Block” 
brings more needed diversity 
to the coming-of-age canon, 
and does so with a charm 
and charisma that’s simply 
irresistible.

Netflix has another teen 
hit with ‘On My Block’

MAITREYI ANANTHARAMAN
Daily Arts Writer

TV REVIEW

NETFLIX

“On My Block” 

Netflix

COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW

Last Thursday, folk fans from 
Ann Arbor and beyond gathered 
at The Ark and settled into the 
seats closely surrounding the 
stage. The scene was a familiar 
one for anyone who has spent 
time at The Ark in the past: People 
chat with each other and sit down 
with drinks and popcorn, the 
lights go dim. It’s a special kind of 
atmosphere, whether or not you’re 
very familiar with the artist of 
the night, because it’s easy to feel 
the community for the evening 
already beginning to take hold.
That night, the performance in 
question was that of Langhorne 
Slim, with an opening set by 
Christian Lee Hutson. And while 
the usual feelings of an Ark 
folk show were all there — the 
community, the emotion and the 
attentiveness — these particular 
artists seemed to extend their 
talents into other modes of 
entertainment 
as 
well. 
Both 
performances were punctuated 
by 
storytelling 
and 
comedy 
that had almost everyone in the 
audience cracking up at one point 
or another.
Hutson took the stage first, 
wearing a bright, retro orange 
shirt indicative of his Los Angeles 
origins. 
Hutson 
warmed 
up 
the crowd with a wide variety 
of songs from his repertoire, 
ricocheting easily and naturally 
between 
moody 
love 
songs, 
folksy reflections and alt rock 
irony. One of the highlights was, 
unquestionably, the humorous 
post-breakup song, “The Kid,” 
with a refrain that just about made 
everyone present laugh: “It doesn’t 
matter what you did / I think 
that we should have a kid.” The 
charismatic carelessness of this 
song was perfectly reflective of 
Hutson’s persona between songs: 
Candid and vulnerable, good-
natured and shameless. There 
were also moments that dug a 
little deeper, like his performance 
of “I Just Can’t Fucking Do It 
Anymore,” a toned-down ode 
to the bittersweet nature of 

resignation and closure.
Slim took the stage next, with 
a range of songs just as eclectic. 
What’s more, each new song 
seemed to hint at a new facet of 
Slim’s personality; even after 
the entire concert was over and 
people were starting to file out, 
it was difficult to know what to 
make of him, how to sort all of the 
different scraps and fragments 
he’d shown us into a picture that 
felt complete.
One thing that can definitely 
be said about Slim is that he was 
social. Like Hutson, he was able to 
command the entire venue easily, 
despite having no band behind 
him. He was just a single man 
with a guitar, yet it didn’t take long 
before the audience was hanging 
on to his every word and chord. 
He even brought it up at one point, 
remarking, “This is a listening 
room.” He praised the audience 
for listening so respectfully, but 
also encouraged everyone not to 
feel suppressed, to know they were 
more than welcome to sing along 
if they knew the words. People 
laughed at this; undoubtedly 
nobody had realized they were 
being so quiet — we’d been so 
hooked on the performance that 
we didn’t notice.
And people did sing along; 
the 
soft 
voices 
of 
audience 
members filled the room during 
the hits “Changes” and “Life is 
Confusing,” and rose in volume 
for more exuberant numbers like 
“Wild Soul.” But they also fell back 
into pools of captivated silence 
during some of the broken-up 
periods between songs, when Slim 
would tell lengthy, varied stories 
about his life and experiences, 
interspersed with jokes. He joked 
about Graham Nash, who had 
performed at The Ark recently 
and left his setlist behind; Slim 
would often consult the setlist (on 
the back of which he’d written his 
own) and wonder aloud how his 
performance was likely living up 
to Nash’s.
He also told the room about 
his childhood summers in Ocean 
City and the love he had for his 
grandparents. 
He 
then 
sang 
“Ocean City (For May, Jack 
& Brother John),” a short but 

poignant song about growing up 
that resonated so much more due 
to the context. Above all else, he 
had an astounding capacity to 
switch abruptly from one mode 
to the next. One minute, he would 
be giving a moving performance 
or telling a story about his 
grandparents that could make 
half the people in the room tear 
up, and the next he would swivel 
into a cheerful, exciting new song, 
and pull the audience right along 
with him.
Each second was just as soul-
baring as the one that came before 
it, with honest, poetic lyrics that 
made it feel as though we were 
almost having a conversation with 
Slim, rather than simply being 
entertained by him. Lines like, “If 
I had somebody to love me / Then 
I’d have somebody to love,” from 
“Funny Feelin’,” were so playful, 
poetic and relatable that it was 
impossible not to be immersed in 
the moment.
All of this reached its peak at 
the very end of the concert. For 
his encore, Slim had The Ark turn 
the lights on. We’d been engulfed 
in pitch-darkness for the entire 
performance, and it felt a little 
jarring to suddenly see each other 
in all the light. Then he did the 
encore while walking around the 
aisles between the rows, making 
eye contact with everybody and 
nodding and singing, high-fiving 
people and grasping their hands. 
Artists do sometimes walk around 
with the crowd while performing, 
but for him to do it with all of 
the lights on — everyone able to 
clearly see each other as if it were 
daytime — felt much more bizarre, 
unique and oddly touching.
From what he showed us 
that night, Langhorne Slim is a 
musician, as well as a storyteller 
and a comedian. He has a great 
love for the people around him, 
singular thoughts and (more 
importantly) 
the 
ability 
to 
articulate them, and an awed, 
specific memory. It is difficult to 
understand him fully based on 
these pieces, but we don’t need to; 
maybe it is enough, as an audience, 
to value what he has given us, and 
to hope that we have given him 
something back.

Langhorne Slim puts on 
enigmatic show at The Ark 

LAURA DZUBAY
Daily Arts Writer

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